[K12OSN] Hard Drive Conundrum

[Brian Chase]

Most likely, you're on a tight budget, and Raid 0/1 capable cards are 
much cheaper.  For a low-end IDE RAID card I'd recommend the 3ware 
7006-2 with RAID 1 (mirrored).

> http://www.3ware.com/products/parallel_ata.asp

> http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html



Jim Kronebusch wrote:

>>what ide raid level would be best for both redundancy and 
>>performance?  
>>is that raid 0+1?  and would any raid controller do that?
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>RAID 5 would be the best in my opinion.  But there is a cost factor
>involved with that as well.  Most cards support 0 or 1 or 0+1.  If RAID
>5 takes your cost too high, then I would go 0+1.
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