Author Topic: RAID 0+1 or RAID-5 for home use? (Read 2267 times)

Vulgate · « **on:** December 08, 2005, 06:31:40 PM »

what is better for a home PC, I have 4HDD what is faster/safer? I have not looked into raid-5. I know I would have 3 HDD of storage and i drive for parity. RAID 10 is just a copy of a striped disks.

what is better?

TekieB · « **Reply #1 on:** December 08, 2005, 07:10:43 PM »

raid 5 is slow writing, and is designed for many people accessing it at one. Raid 10 would provide more write speed, but you would loost more drive space to the array

Pride · « **Reply #2 on:** December 08, 2005, 07:23:19 PM »

Quote from: "TekieB"

raid 5 is slow writing, and is designed for many people accessing it at one. Raid 10 would provide more write speed, but you would loost more drive space to the array

Geek! :geek:

TekieB · « **Reply #3 on:** December 08, 2005, 07:34:05 PM »

Quote from: "Pride"

Quote from: "TekieB"
raid 5 is slow writing, and is designed for many people accessing it at one. Raid 10 would provide more write speed, but you would loost more drive space to the array

Geek! :geek:

no, I just have been looking at storage options recently

edit: what are you trying to do (file server, video editing, gaming?)

edit 2: raid 5 has parity across all disks, raid 3 has a dedicated drive for it

sully! · « **Reply #4 on:** December 08, 2005, 08:09:25 PM »

Unless he's looking at getting a dedicated RAID card, RAID 3 usually isn't a common option for the integrated RAID solutions on most mobo's.

But Tekie is right in that RAID 5 is better for multiple user access (ie, server situations). For a desktop that you want speed and redundancy, go with the 0+1.

For a more complete overview of RAID technologies, take a look at http://www.bytepile.com/raid_class.php

Vulgate · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2005, 08:22:10 AM »

well, it's mostly a game rig, but it also share's music/vids/data/dsl with 3 othr users. currently I have 150GB of stuff and still have about 75+/- cd's in LOSSLESS quality to rip. Plus 20ish older games to install.....

I do think it's more geek to have a RAID-5 setup!

Pride · « **Reply #6 on:** December 09, 2005, 08:44:02 AM »

Raid 5 is very expensive.

if you are looking for redundancy, go with a 0 or 1

No need for a raid 3 5 or 10

TekieB · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2005, 08:52:13 AM »

raid 5 gives better allocation of disks, and isn't that expensive

Pride · « **Reply #8 on:** December 09, 2005, 09:01:40 AM »

It is considering you need 3 HD's to do it!

Vulgate · « **Reply #9 on:** December 09, 2005, 11:00:04 AM »

I have 4 drives, an NF4 RAID does 0/1/5

I don't realy need fast writes, just fast reads......

don't know, I'll look around more!

Vulgate · « **Reply #10 on:** December 09, 2005, 11:03:52 AM »

RAID 5!!!!!!! whaaahaaahha?

kona · « **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2005, 11:58:18 AM »

RAID 5 is faster
RAID 0+1 is safer

It just depends on what you use the PC for...........

Dwg115 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 09, 2005, 12:12:22 PM »

i read a review a few months back i think it was on tomshardware but not sure and they benchmarked different raid types and bencked them against non raid machines. guess what in most cases there were no differences and in some the non-raid machines were faster. so if performance is what ur after maybe you should reconsider. I'll try to find that article and post it.

TekieB · « **Reply #13 on:** December 09, 2005, 01:02:09 PM »

do you really trust THG?

Dwg115 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 09, 2005, 01:09:53 PM »

well im not sure it was toms but the interview was very informative and complete. Besides, the cost of raid is high so if it really doesn't perform better whats the point. I'm not saying that it doesn't perform better but i would definitly read some reviews and benches before investing my money. I'm simply just restating the review that i read.

Author Topic: RAID 0+1 or RAID-5 for home use? (Read 2267 times)

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