What to do with hard drives?

[starbuck8968]

I have 8 500gb Seagate 7200.9 drives. I got an LSI Megaraid SATA 300-8X, but I'm dissapointed in the RAID5 performance. Should I try doing a RAID10 or RAID0+1? Or get another card altogether?

Right now I have 3 300gb drives, but they are full and need to create an array or something pretty quick. What would you guys do with this setup?

 

[rodsfree]

I have 8 500gb Seagate 7200.9 drives. I got an LSI Megaraid SATA 300-8X, but I'm dissapointed in the RAID5 performance. Should I try doing a RAID10 or RAID0+1? Or get another card altogether?

Right now I have 3 300gb drives, but they are full and need to create an array or something pretty quick. What would you guys do with this setup?

Oracle..the database people...recommend a RAID 10 for their applications. They say that it is faster than RAID 5. Your setup would yield a 2TB RAID 10 array. And the redundancy is better in RAID 10 than it is in RAID 5.

Give it a try.

If you are in a playing mood....build one 4 drive array as RAID 10 and use the other 4 drives to build a RAID 5 array. Then benchmark them. Should be good for a weekend of fun.