I'm researching a new system for the upcoming Windows 7 release. At this point I'm trying to decide on a RAID solution. For the OS and apps I'm going to use a single Intel 80GB SSD. I might go RAID 1 on the SSDD some day, but thought that might be overkill. For data I am thinking of RAID 1 with SATA hard drives. Should I be concerned about the type of hard drive? I've read a few posts indicating the deep recovery process of some drives (Western Digital?) will cause it to drop out of the array. Would any brand be better at RAID than another? I want to have 1TB of data storage.
My current system is 3 WD 500MB drives in RAID 5. I lost a drive from the array and was able to replace it and rebuild. I decided to go with RAID 1 on the new system from all the issues I've seen in posts and articles. I also thought about RAID 10 for data. I don't get the impression it would help that much.
I'm going to get a eVGA X58 SLI vanilla MB with 6GB of memory. I also run Mozy backup every night so I have an offsite copy of all my data.
Curt
My current system is 3 WD 500MB drives in RAID 5. I lost a drive from the array and was able to replace it and rebuild. I decided to go with RAID 1 on the new system from all the issues I've seen in posts and articles. I also thought about RAID 10 for data. I don't get the impression it would help that much.
I'm going to get a eVGA X58 SLI vanilla MB with 6GB of memory. I also run Mozy backup every night so I have an offsite copy of all my data.
Curt