Raid 0+1 is your best best. Requires 8 drives to get the amount of storage you are looking for though. RAID-5 has poor write performance, actually a bit worse than just a single disk because it needs to calculate parity before writing it. If you're using it as a scratch disk though, you can probably just get by with a stripe. Just make sure you have your important stuff backed up elsewhere. -jay On Aug 18, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Garrett Krueger wrote: > Striping by itself is probably a bad idea since, if one drive fails, > you'll be up the proverbial creek (/w no paddle). You might wish to > look > at one of the other RAID solutions such as RAID 1 or RAID 5 which will > offer some fault tolerance. > >> I am helping a friend build a system that will be used for video >> editing. It needs to have 1TB of storage and would like to make sure >> I'm >> not missing any options. I am currently planning on getting four 250MB >> hard drive and stripping them in an array. >> >> I am also curious on the best case and power supply for such a setup. >> The system will be a dual processor computer. >> >> I know there are some storage experts out there. >> >> thanks in advance, >> jason reynolds >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >> Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list