A server can also run into write performace woes with RAID 0+1 because of
the mirroring aspect slowing it down by needing to write the same thing
twice (although read performance is typically enhanced due to multiple
identical data sources).

> 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
>>>
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