Anyone here have experience with RAID

Originally Posted by Silound

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.

Your implying that all 900GB of my data reside somewhere else on the network which isn't true at all, most people pick and chose

I was drawn to RAID because of the big performance boost+the ability to keep a backup at all times

As far as games go, would it be best to install them to my RAID partition so that the game can access its files faster or would it be better to put them on my OS disk?