X58 1TBx5 question

[arkadi]

I just got my hands on 5 WD Black 1TB drives.... I was thinking, what will be better, to create small Raid 0 let say 100GB (20GBx5) and the rest Raid 5, or Raid 5 all the way.

Rig:
x58 ud5
12 gb ram
920@3800
v8
260gtx
etc....

 

[tudordewolf]

Doing 5x 20Gb partitions in RAID 0 and the rest as RAID 5 doesn't make much sense; if one fails, you lose everything on the RAID 0 array, and the rest is left fine.

Technologically; its inefficient since you'd be partitioning the drives and THEN making RAID arrays from that; you would be much better off doing one big RAID 5 array; it would probably perform faster than 5x20GB partitions in RAID 0, not to mention that all your data would be backed up - you'd get 4TB of storage, which is a ton anyways.

 

[arkadi]

It is a problem to Boot from Array bigger than 2tb. Any way I just made two array's instad. Raid 0 with my two old 750 f1. and 4 blacks 1tb 4 data, in raid 5.
It will do 4 now.