2009/8/30 Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>: > Rudi Ahlers schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> Can someone please assist met with some software RAID 1+0 setup >> instructions? I have searched the web, but couldn't find any. I found >> a lot of RAID 10 setup instructions, but it doesn't help me. >> > Hi, > > what is your purpose with this Level? I'm asking because I had done some > raid level tests some time ago with hardware raid controllers/systems > from 3ware, sun and iscsi-raidsystems and some softwareraid setups. > > I haven't seen significant performance differences using different > levels. (I'm not comparing the controllers.) > > > Regards, > > Götz > > > _______________________________________________ With the limited resources (motherboard supports 2x SATA & 4x IDE - but I don't want to use more than 2 IDE HDD's), and small form factor chassis, I would rather sacrifice less space (460GB on 4x 250GB HDD's) and run RAID 10 for higher reliability & speed, then run RAID 5 and have higher risk of complete data loss. RAID 10 can suffer 2 drive failures, while RAID 5 only one. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532