I'm building up the following workstation:
Intel Matrix RAID (ICH9R) capable motherboard
6 matching SATA II hard drives for the RAID set(s)
1300 FSB
Intel Core2 Quad processor
UPS for autosave & graceful shutdown if power goes out
and I'm looking for opinions and rationale for chosing one of the following configurations. I'm looking for best performance with redundancy.
Option 1: create one RAID 10 set using all 6 hard disks, then partition it into two drives: one for OS & applications, the other for data
Option 2: create two RAID 5 sets with each using 3 hard disks with one RAID 5 set for the OS & applications and the other RAID 5 set for my data.
Intel Matrix RAID (ICH9R) capable motherboard
6 matching SATA II hard drives for the RAID set(s)
1300 FSB
Intel Core2 Quad processor
UPS for autosave & graceful shutdown if power goes out
and I'm looking for opinions and rationale for chosing one of the following configurations. I'm looking for best performance with redundancy.
Option 1: create one RAID 10 set using all 6 hard disks, then partition it into two drives: one for OS & applications, the other for data
Option 2: create two RAID 5 sets with each using 3 hard disks with one RAID 5 set for the OS & applications and the other RAID 5 set for my data.