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kraftwerk · 11-09-2007, 03:02 PM

If you can have/afford it, consider building a server with hot-swap HDDs - if/when one of them dies, it's easier if you can swap a dead drive without having to shut the server down.

Other than that, I'd go for RAID 5+1 just as Ed said - you'll have speed and a mirror as a failback.

11-09-2007, 03:02 PM	#4 (permalink)
kraftwerk Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: East Sussex, UK Posts: 82 OS: Vista Home Premium 32-bit/Windows XP Pro SP2/Ubuntu 6.04 My System	Re: Raid Advice If you can have/afford it, consider building a server with hot-swap HDDs - if/when one of them dies, it's easier if you can swap a dead drive without having to shut the server down. Other than that, I'd go for RAID 5+1 just as Ed said - you'll have speed and a mirror as a failback. __________________ kraftwerk keeping local ict going