Raid 0+1 v's Raid 5 - opinions and real world results ?
I'm looking at upgrading and this could play a bit role in what motherboard and drives I get.
The DFI DR series have the Sil' SATA chipset that offers Raid 5 (though I believe it is Sata1 - 150 rather than Sata2 - 300). I could theoretically get this and stick 3 drives on it (minimum for raid5) and get striping with parity, which is generally agreed to be the best variant of Raid.
The lesser boards I am looking at , do have the option Raid 0+1. Does anyone have experience of this ? What sort of real worls results did you have if you did or do use it ?
Drive wise, I guess I'd be looking at 2 raptors in raid 0+1 or 3 large 7200rpm 16mb cache drives in raid 5. Similar price but obviously a large difference in storage capacity.
Thanks
mj