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Computer Configuration
I have a Dell Precision 670 that I am running Vegas 4.0 on. Dell has suggested configuring my drives in a raid 5 so it will have automatic backup in case a drive fail. I was going to configure it as a raid 0. I have 4-250gig hard drives. One for my system drive and 750gigs for video and media storage. Any suggestions.
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3 Replies
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Safety vs space. If you go raid 0, you’ll have more space to use but losing one of the three drives would lose your files. Raid 5 would be safer in that if any drive went down you would lose no files and could simply replace the failed drive and continue BUT you’ll lose about 1/3 of your storage space so instead of 750 you’d have 500.
Edward Troxel
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And speed.
2 drive in raid 0 is also faster than only 1 drive.
Speed increease depends on the implementation, but
THEORETICALLY
the maximum increase is 2x. -
I did a quick test.
My 2 drive array (2*maxtor IDE 80G 8MB cahce)
tranfers about 74MB/sec.
My second drive, (160GB maxtor, IDE 8MB cache)
transfers about 56 MB/sec.These are measured with nero’s “test all drives
speed”.
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