built many data centers in my past with SUN, HP, IBM, and other vendors. I have been lured by the prospect of using SATA II drives in RAID 5 at an affordable price with software level RAID. I embarked on designing and building a system as a Media and FileServer...

New Build - RAID questions. Currently running the following storage setup: 1x 150GB WD Raptor - OS + General programs (AV, office programs, and such) 2x 500GB WD Caviar in RAID 0 managed by motherboard's ICH9R chipset - Games, Maya, 3DSMax, and general storage...

from just one SSD? Originally I had two SSDs in my build in a Raid 0 array, but it was far too pricey. Mind you, I'm trying to stay under a budget. Having three Caviar Blue 80GBs in a Raid 0 array would probably be almost as fast as having two solid state disks....

and sometimes it does decide to do this if after you've had a pesky blue MS screen. I did try Raid 10 setup when I first built the PC build the Raid 0 for OS and Raid 5 for Data works faster. I doubt if you could transfer everything over to a new motherboards...

both on hdmi if possible (or dvi if that's easier and not any worse quality). I want to RAID 0 two 500 gb 7200 rpm sata drives together, and eventually probably change that to raid 10 and 4 drives. In the beginning, i will only have one video card, one dvd...

up my data to my new 500GB drive, and I want to try a RAID 1 setup which mirrors the data so that I don't have to manually copy important files. However, since the drives are of different sizes, the RAID array will be the smallest drive size of 250GB. Is...

would be in 2 500GB drives. What do you do with your system? for most people raid 0 isn't worth the hassle period. If you have a high-end quad core build, then I'd say the raid 0 is very well worth it. Storage has long been the bottleneck of many systems,...

tests on it yet, these are just calcs with dd from a remote linux box. A good article on building a cheap RAID 5 box, but I have to disagree with your selection of RAID card. If you build everything from the ground up and want to save money, then by all...

take a week to run, and one will always be going whenever the system fails) So my thought was to use 4 HDs in a Raid 10 configuration. But if that's actually going to be slower due to issues with raid drivers, then maybe I should look for a SSD+raid 1 backup...