Re: OT Raid Setup for MP3 Server

["Andy Bovingdon" <bov@xxxxxxx>]

Recommendations time folks - Still sorting out that new PC and looking 
at the ABIT legacy free mobo, that features RAID. Would it be better
to get 1 7200rpm 60Gb drive or a couple of cheaper and possibly slower 
40Gb drives acting as one 80Gb drive? Since it has the RAID capability,
what is the most cost effective way to getting the most performance
etc.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Fidell" <james@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT Raid Setup for MP3 Server


> Quoting paul_watkin (paul_watkin@xxxxxxx):
> 
> > I want to create a mirrored copy of all of my MP3's, I propose to
> > have the following drives
> > 
> > Drive0 120Gig
> > Drive1 120Gig
> > 
> > Drive2 120Gig
> > Drive3 120gig
> > 
> > Drive4 20Gig
> > 
> > Drives 0+1 will become a pairing to create one 240Gig drive as
will 
> > drives 2+3, with the second pairing being a mirror of the first,
I 
> > think this is theoretically possible but not sure.
> 
> It's certainly possibly in theory, but given that an mp3 partition
is
> likely to have a high proportion of reads and few writes, why not
go
> for RAID5 and have 360GB of usable disk?
> 
> James
> 
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