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Old 11-12-2008, 03:06 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Zweiblumen View Post
3. What is your goal with raid, raid 1+0 should give you more performance than 0+1, raid 0 would give the maximum performance and raid 5 is often considered to be the best trade of between performance, redudancy and cost.
Right. Good call.

I use RAID 5 for my server, but the access times aren't quite as fast.

RAID 1+0 will probably be best over 5. 5 will be more likely to create a parity error as you increase data storage size. 2 drives RAID 0 is less than 3 or 4 drives RAID 5 (parity regions count against).
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