I am currently setting up a system as a backup server, and intend for it to have a raid 5 setup on 4 hd's through a 3gb/s sata raid controller pci card, one or two raid 1 mirrored ATA IDE arrays, and possible using the 2 sata on the mobo (both 1.5gb/s) for another mirrored array but it would have to be through software since the nforce 2 raid controller isnt working with sata drives.
So my question would be, which array, if any, is best for my boot drive? the 3.0gb/s raid 5 would seem the logical choice but i imagine that gets bottlenecked at the pci slot, so next up would be the onboard sata, but how much would that get slowed down by software raid? so that leaves the mirrored ata ide drives, western digital caviars, 16mb cache, 500gig drives.
Also i have read a few posts about people having their systems slowed to a snails pace with os's on arrays, is this a concern?
Thx
So my question would be, which array, if any, is best for my boot drive? the 3.0gb/s raid 5 would seem the logical choice but i imagine that gets bottlenecked at the pci slot, so next up would be the onboard sata, but how much would that get slowed down by software raid? so that leaves the mirrored ata ide drives, western digital caviars, 16mb cache, 500gig drives.
Also i have read a few posts about people having their systems slowed to a snails pace with os's on arrays, is this a concern?
Thx