"Sam Fourman Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those of you that are knowledgeable, and have the time to respond > > does anyone see any troubles with this hardware selection? > I am mostly concerned with the raid Controller selection I am > expecting it to have raid 5 across 16 drives with 1 spare
I would suggest RAID 10 instead of 5 if you don't need 3TB of storage. It tolerates multiple drive failures (usually), and doesn't suffer the performance penalty while degraded that RAID 5 does. And if performance matters, I'd suggest 15k SCSI drives instead of the 7200 RPM SATA drives. Adam
