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Silound · 12-19-2008, 01:04 PM

I don't quite understand why you need a RAID to begin with.

If all you're doing is sharing large quantities of movies and music over P2P, then there's no reason to have such a complicated storage system. You can simply have 3 large independent drives for storage. if you lose any data, you specifically say that you can download it fairly quickly, so there's no reason to worry about data loss because you can replace it fairly quickly and efficiently.

I would suggest you buy a 10K RPM drive for your OS install and major programs, and use your three larger drives as basic inexpensive storage. Anything you REALLY need to back up, you can burn to a CD/DVD or move to an external smaller drive.

12-19-2008, 01:04 PM	#12
Silound ex-CS Swamp Gorilla Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Somewhere in a swamp, south of sanity Posts: 802 Trading: (15)	Re: Anyone here have experience with RAID I don't quite understand why you need a RAID to begin with. If all you're doing is sharing large quantities of movies and music over P2P, then there's no reason to have such a complicated storage system. You can simply have 3 large independent drives for storage. if you lose any data, you specifically say that you can download it fairly quickly, so there's no reason to worry about data loss because you can replace it fairly quickly and efficiently. I would suggest you buy a 10K RPM drive for your OS install and major programs, and use your three larger drives as basic inexpensive storage. Anything you REALLY need to back up, you can burn to a CD/DVD or move to an external smaller drive. __________________ Back in black, and better than ever! You can't keep a good gorilla down! LSU Geaux Tigers!