Hexus Raid Guide

[mjwebb]

Hi I was wondering if there was a Hexus beginners guide to RAID? I noticed the 2005 guide from searching the site and wondered if anything new had come around RAID wise in the last 6 years or if the size of current hdd's make raid arrays less relevant.

[Tattysnuc]

I wasn;t aware of any new stuff, so if there is anything, I too would be interested. Am using Raid 5 from ICH10 chipset at the moment and it#s been great for me....

[Splash]

I suppose the obvious question is what are you wanting from a RAID system? There's not really been a great deal of change in the base technologies tbh - the majority of exciting stuff in storage is SAN/NAS stuff - things like ZFS.

[mjwebb]

I was wondering if putting a raid scratch disk in an editing rig would be beneficial especially with working with raw avi in standard or HD.

[Splash]

That's one of the areas where a RAID0 would shine - where it's being used for scratch and you'd not really lose anything if it dropped a disk. That said... dependent on your budget and the amount of scratch store you need you may well have a better experience using an SSD instead.

[mjwebb]

I think SSD would still be a little to expensive for the amount of space needed. Would 2x 500gb in RAID0 be more effective/efficient than a single 1tb drive? I can see the tb being easier to set up just stick it in. Would the RAID taking an hour extra to set up be worth it over the middle term?

[Moby-Dick]

More spindles is always going to be quicker ( assuming all your drives spin at the same speed )