yes its 179 with a 80 dollar rebate. 1 per customer of course VERY HOT!
got me one so now i have 1 80 and 3 120's (the 120's will be my raid)
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cfitz wrote:Great deal.
Somewhat off topic, how do you intend to configure those three 120's in your RAID array?
cfitz
MonteLDS wrote:i will only be RAIDing the 2 8MB buffer ones.
cfitz wrote:MonteLDS wrote:i will only be RAIDing the 2 8MB buffer ones.
Oh, okay. I was afraid you were thinking of setting up the three of them in a RAID 5 configuration. Will you be doing RAID 0 striping for speed or RAID 1 mirroring for redundancy?
cfitz
dodecahedron wrote:what exactly is RAID5?
dodecahedron wrote:why afraid?
what's wrong with RAID5?
dodecahedron wrote:what's the advantage then of RAID5 over RAID0?
as i understand RAID0 also gives you data integrity without a performance hit.
MonteLDS wrote:i am runing a RAID 0. I am about to test it right now to see how it is doing for speed
But, yeah, any RAID is only as good as its controller
Tolyngee wrote:BUT you said:
"Before a write can be made, depending on stripe sizes, the size of the write and the alignment of the write, the existing data must be read from multiple discs in the array, the parity recalculated, and the data written back to multiple discs. "
Huh? if you want to write data to RAID-5, all you have to do is take the data, stripe it, calculate the parity (very simple XOR process), and write it. Where is this phantom read coming from?
Tolyngee wrote:
I do video editing, and I can tell you now that running RAID-5 is not the bottleneck on my system for the editing function.
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All up to what editing you are doing too. (he did mention this is why he bought a DVD burner)
If doing high-quality DVD authoring, any RAID will do. (I've done DVD authoring that would allow me to use floppies without a peformance hit...)
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But, yeah, any RAID is only as good as its controller.
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