suse media server: raid 5

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ring.of.steel

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hi, i have 2 options for the o/s on my file server

windows server 2003
suse enterprise server 10

i want to setup raid 5 on 3 x 320gb drives

which would be the faster option

this will be software raid only as i cannot afford a controller and it is only going to be used for streaming media.

thanks
 
Windows OS RAID 5 write performance is generally poor. There might be some tricks to improve its performance, but I didn't find one that worked.

Linux OS RAID 5 writes perform well, at least sometimes.
 
my server at the moment is completely windows based. would it be worth changing to suse just for this?
 
ring.of.steel said:
my server at the moment is completely windows based. would it be worth changing to suse just for this?
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Well that's up to you. If the write performance is meeting your needs, then probably not. The write performance would be enough for typical download speeds, etc., but I wouldn't want to do a lot of video editing on it for example.

The write performance should also be good enough for 100 Mb/s networking.

Other alternatives would be some other RAID level or on-board RAID or an add-on controller.
 
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