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HDD question

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Pepiz

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How much of an improval will RAID 5 be for a server that uses a 512kbps conection? its just a little file server im planning on building with 4 250gb sata drives is it really worth the space i lose for raid 5 with such a bad conection? o should i just use the 4 drives individually for more space?
 
Over 512k, speeds will be really pretty bad - 50 KB/s instead of 10 MB/s over LAN. But if you can tolerate that, raid 5 will be a worthwhile thing to do - that way a disk failure doesn't lose you any data.

Before I go too far along that path, let me ask - what is this going to be used for? If it's just bulk storage, raid 5 will be a good idea (but over a 512k connection!?); for a real server-type thing, or a database of any sort, raid 0+1 or seperate disks will be a better idea.

 
Remotely accessing pdf files.. tons of them.. at my country adsl speed suck the most u can get is 1536 and its kinda expensive..
 
Well, depending on the PDF files it won't be so bad. But since you're limited in speed, it shouldn't be a problem to lose 250GB of space - it'd take you a few hundred hours to transfer that much anyways ;)

 
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