![[H]ard|Forum](/styles/hardforum/xenforo/logo_dark.png){kind=logo}
Hi there, I have a lot of new stuff on the way, well most of its here just waiting for the case and finals week to end to get to work on it.
I ordered 3 Seagate 1TB 7200.11 drives. My current setup (going to the gf after i finish my build) has 3 500GB 7200.10's in RAID5, and I currently get about 30MB/s writes from the array to itself (copying).
I am debating on setting up the new system with raid5 again or going raid0 with 2 of them and then having the third as backup for important things.
I am wondering what some of your opinions are on which way to go.
I dont game very often but I do use the computer for intensive tasks like solidworks
I dont care about the 1TB loss from the raid5 setup
I would rather have the raid5 just due to ease of fixing if something goes wrong, but wondering if the benifits of going raid0 will increase performance enough to actually notice on a day to day basis over raid5.
The raid array will be controlled by the intel southbridge of my asus p5q
Thanks
I ordered 3 Seagate 1TB 7200.11 drives. My current setup (going to the gf after i finish my build) has 3 500GB 7200.10's in RAID5, and I currently get about 30MB/s writes from the array to itself (copying).
I am debating on setting up the new system with raid5 again or going raid0 with 2 of them and then having the third as backup for important things.
I am wondering what some of your opinions are on which way to go.
I dont game very often but I do use the computer for intensive tasks like solidworks
I dont care about the 1TB loss from the raid5 setup
I would rather have the raid5 just due to ease of fixing if something goes wrong, but wondering if the benifits of going raid0 will increase performance enough to actually notice on a day to day basis over raid5.
The raid array will be controlled by the intel southbridge of my asus p5q
Thanks