ChefDude

Isn't RAID10 great

Nice and quick with a bit of added security in there too

Haven't posted for a while, so I thought I'd share today's enlightenment

stevem2k

If you can afford the 'wasted' disks then absolutely.

ChefDude

i have 8 1TBs in my PC, so yes I can

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ChrisB

That's a lot of pr0n

darlodge

Do you mean security or resilience?

Darren

ChefDude

resilience; if a drive fails.

I always have enough money for another drive, not 000s to go get the holiday photographs again

I back up elsewhere too.

and no pr0n either lol

hodgy0_2

the more disk you have, the more chance you have of one failing

it needs monitoring to be truly resilient

ChefDude

intel matrix manager

judgejules

RAID is only good if you actually check your infrequently used data. Having drives fail during a rebuild due to that parts of the disk not being touched for ages is a real nightmare.

16 X 1.5 TBs in RAID6, yes I like raid (but I dont like raid5)

ChefDude

if those 1.5tb drives are barracudas, then it's not raid that's the problem

i've had 4 go bang in a row. i won't touch them for at least a couple of firmware versions now.

mike1210

errr that makes me a little bervous as I've got 2 in my PC. I remember them having a noisy batch not do long ago that was discussed to death on overclockers.

On forums the Samgsung Spinpoint and Barracudas seem highly though of, Raptors for extreme speed

ChefDude

Between Suzy and I we have 15 1TB barracuda 7200.11s in our 2 desktops and they're rock solid. never a problem, although a few MBs slower than the spinpoints.

judgejules

I've not had a single problem with the 1.5 bara's since they were put in (touch wood). I had a few 1's and one 0.5's fail over the years but the only major problems I've had was a faulty Y power splitter which was causing me intermittant failures and a brand new 1tb fail during a raid5 expansion when the array was already degraded (I was not a happy bunny).