I am building a custom desktop PC for my office. This PC will hold customer details, business balance sheets, forecasts and other important information which needs to be safe, because of this I have learn't that RAID 1 is a good method of ensuring that data is saved as data is mirrored so that if 1 hard drive fails then there is a identical backup.
I have also learn't that RAID 10 uses 4 hard drives, 2 sets of 2 which strip the data for twice as fast read and write along with 2 hard drives which make a mirrored backup.
In a previous build that I made 2 years ago for a friend I used Intel's Rapid Storage Technology with a 120GB SSD for data caching. Would having 2 500GB hard drives in RAID 1 configuration with an additional 120GB for caching be faster than having 4 500GB hard drives in RAID 10?
Also, an additional question, would this motherboard support both storage methods and how easy are these RAID configuration to setup?
Asus H97-PLUS ATX LGA1150
Thanks in advance.
Matt
depends on the drives used. If you are talking mechanical hdd's in raid 0 vs ssd caching on a raid 1 then it could be about the same, maybe a littel faster on the ssd cache.
Why do you need speed? If it's just a bout redundancy then keep it simple and raid 1 a pair of drives.
It yo ujust want a bit of a speed boost, grab 2 ssd's and raid 1 them. It would be similar in cost as you dont need to fork out for a controller card - software raid 1 is fine
I currently use a MacBook Air 13" with PCI flash storage so I have gotten used to having a fast computer but with the budget I have I can't fork out on multiple SSD's. I have 1 120GB SSD so I was just wondering whether using that as Cache and then buy 2 500GB hard drives would be a good combination?
Thanks for the help.
What is your budget and how much space do you think you will need?
Caching only works up to 60 GB (unless it changed from when I used to do it)
I would just install the os on the ssd and move the user folders to your harddrive that you can set in raid if you wanted