I would like to setup a simple RAID setup with either RAID 0 or RAID 5. I have seen several $20, $80 and $120 raid controllers listed on newegg all saying they will do "RAID 0,1,0+1 JBOD". None appear to be capable of doing RAID 5. My primary concern is disk capacity, my second is speed, and my third is redundancy. I assume RAID 5 would probably fit best with my needs, but none of the cards I saw for $20, $80, or $120 do RAID 5.
My first question is, is there a decent RAID 5 card within the $20, $80, and $120 range? My second question is, if I did do the RAID 0 setup, and if I noticed one disk begins to fail, is it possible to somehow transfer the remaining good portions to a different disk without having to rebuild the whole array? The problem is that I am planing on having 4 x 250GB drives. At 1 TB there would be no place to move ALL files off so I could rebuild the array. This setup is for a multimedia setup, so I am not too worried about loosing some files, but I would like to be able to salvage what I could. Kenneth /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
