On 4/15/08, Miguel Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Until i get a bad sector.. ! Well i could make regular backups to a > third drive. > > On 4/15/08, fooler mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/14/08, Miguel Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I don't need reliability on my home desktop (again, for now) > > > > migs... i would rather go for raid 0...
migs... bad sector doesnt affect your raid 0 setup :-> if one of the disks in your raid 0 fails.. then thats the time for you to problem... there are three raid modes usually popularly used.. raid 0 (stripping), raid 1 (mirroring) and raid 5 (stripping with parity)... since you have three disks and you want faster reads and faster writes without concern of reliablity... raid 0 is best for you... but take note if you have PATA controller... because you have three disks... you only maximize your disk speed with two disks on different channel installed... for raid 1 (mirroring), read is 2x faster than any other raid modes because it splits the read with the two disks... for example... if you read 2k bytes.. 1k is read from the first drive and 1k for the second drive... but for the write mode...a little bit slower than raid 0... for raid 5... read is the same speed with raid 0 because of the stripping technique but the worst of all the raid modes when it comes to write speed because it stores twice - the actual data and the parity value... computing the parity value added overall latency for writing... since reliability is not an issue with you.. raid 0 for three disks is best for you... if you want a higher throughput and higher disk space without compromising cost... get a scsi controller with built-in raid hardware... ide or sata disks.. and then ide-to-scsi or sata-to-scsi converter as scsi disks are pretty much expensive than ide or sata disks... but you need a higher wattage power supply to support the load of your configuration... fooler. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
