On Oct 29, 2004, at 7:59 PM, Michael Dhaliwal wrote:
I would say leave the RAID at 2x7 drive RAID 5. I had to make the
same decision about a week ago and that's how I left my storage. No
one I spoke with really suggested 50 as a good idea. Yes, you will
probably get a performance gain due to the fact that you have a set of
14 drives, instead of 7. Its really your choice. Its a matter of
better performance with the set of 14 drives compared to the safety of
being able to keep your data online if a controller goes offline and
keeping one extra layer of complexity off your data set by not
software striping across controllers.
Do you need more space than one 7 drive bank can give you? I simply
broke off some data into the second controller, so instead of having
one bank 90% full, I have one 50% and the other 40%.
This is what we do too. I think you get more flexibility this way. If
you are editing HD video on it then go for the 50, but for data storage
just leave them separate.
