You could raid 0 + 1, but that would take 4 drives and give you the capacity of 2 drives. =) You stripe 2 drives together for speed, then you mirror that stripe set to another identical stripe set for redundancy.
I run RAID 5 at home, it's the best compromise if you have a decent RAID controller. Chris Peterson Gainey IT Adobe Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:18 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: raid 0 vs raid 5 I thought there would be a performance boost with raid 5, as well as fault tolerance. I want the performance of raid 0, or at least a performance boost over a single drive, but I would also like to not have to worry about a drive failing. Is there a raid configuration that provides a performance boost over a single disk setup that also provides redundancy? -----Original Message----- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:55 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: raid 0 vs raid 5 On 8/27/07, Matthew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How big a performance difference is it going from raid 0 to raid 5? I > like the idea of speed with raid 0, but the redundancy of raid 5 is a > plus. How much faster is raid 5 compared to a single > drive(normal/non-raid)? I'm not sure that's a question that needs to be asked. You go with RAID-0 if you only care about performance. You go with RAID-5 if you need fault tolerance. -- Rick Root Check out CFMBB, BlogCFM, ImageCFC, ImapCFC, CFFM, and more at www.opensourcecf.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:241475 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
