Re: RAID array for home

"xmas" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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After a recent drive failure, I want to set up a RAID array at home both
for speed of data access and redundancy. Never set one up before, but
would like to do it in hardware rather than relying on Windows: any
recommendations?


For speed *and* redundancy, you would ideally want RAID-5, which involves 3+
drives and an expensive controller. It would be nice if you had loads of
money, but it's normally only used in servers and really high-end
workstations.

I have two WD Raptor hard drives in 'Matrix RAID' which allows you to have
both RAID-0 and RAID-1 partitions on the same pair of drives. I think this
is only available on Intel chipsets.

RAID 0+1 needs four disks and seems wasteful to me.

ss.


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