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  advice on raid stripe and cluster size needed

  Posted by Mark Leger on July 11, 2013 at 6:06 pm

  building a raid 3 array with 6 seagate constellation ES.3 drives. will be used for video and photography. im a cc subscriber and use cinema 4d.

  basically whats an ideal setting for stripe and cluster sizes for this? tia

  Paul King replied 13 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Rainer Wirth

  July 11, 2013 at 8:50 pm

  Hi Mark,

  Raid 3 is an old system. With 6 HD’s I would recommend Raid5, if you want more protection Raid 6, but Raid 5 gives you enough redundance with just 6 drives in one array. I believe you use good reliable enterprise drives, all the same size and brand.

  cheers

  Rainer

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  Mark Leger

  July 11, 2013 at 9:03 pm

  thanks for the heads up…still curious as to what i should set stripe and cluster size. btw this will be on a areca 1220
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  Rainer Wirth

  July 12, 2013 at 11:11 am

  Just follow the advice in the manual for the specific Raid level.

  Cheers

  Rainer

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  Rainer Wirth
  phone_0049-177-2156086
  Mac pro 8core
  Adobe,FCP,Avid
  several raid systems
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  Paul King

  July 22, 2013 at 3:30 pm

  Hi Mark

  Just leave it the default 64kb.
  you’re using it for large sequential reads so larger sizes wont make much difference. Most of these controls relate to server and database specifics.

  A 1220 is pretty old, have you already brought the controller?

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