On Monday 16 August 2004 06:12, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > Once upon a time Sunday 15 August 2004 6:36 pm, Louis Garcia wrote: > > What raid do you recommend I use? > > > > --Louis > > 5 , 1+0, depends on what level redundancy that you want 5 you need half > as much space as you want so for 1TB available you need 1.5TB of hdd's for > 1+0 you need twice as much space so for 1 TB you will nedd 2TB of Hdd space Best price might be to do a 1TB RAID5 array with 5 250gig drives. Plus a spare drive that can take over if one faiis. With RAID5 you always loose the capacity of one drive, so it's not always the cheapest to make it out of the biggest drives.
