Alexander_Q Posted August 31, 2007 Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 I'm wondering what is the best RAID type to use for an arrangement of 5TB or so. I have heard that RAID 5 does not cope well with write-intensive circumstances such as torrenting, but I don't want to lose all that data if only one hard drive bites the dust by using a non parity RAID. I also don't want to have to lose half of my space by having a mirror RAID.Has anyone had any experience with a RAID 5 array that is constantly torrenting or similar? Can you comment on speed or reliability issues? My friends and I have decided to download the Internets, or more specifically, backups of the DVDs that we own. It is quite a substantial collection.Cheers in advance. Any useful response will be assigned EPIC WIN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 RAID6 + a good hardware RAID card (3ware or areca). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander_Q Posted September 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 This won't penalise write-speed to the extent that downloading is slowed or data is corrupted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 With a good RAID card, it's honestly faster than any single hard drive could ever be, ESPECIALLY if you have a battery backup unit for the card (so you can enable the cache). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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