How about the Raid 1+0 or I hear it is also called Raid10.
|| = mirror
+ = stripe
[ a || a' ] + [ b || b' ] + [ c || c' ]
I do not think you have to replace the whole set if you loose one.
1. I want to make win7 or win sever run faster.
2. I want to make Linux run faster? (ubuntu, fedora, slackware )
3. I want to edit movies with Blender.
4. I want to edit moves with Sony Vegas Pro 9.
I plan to add a 1TB drive for back up.
Thanks.
Extra:
SATA
5 SATA 6 Gb/s ports by AMD® SB850
1 E-SATA port by AMD® SB850
RAID
SATA 1~5 support RAID 0/ 1/ 10/ 5 mode by AMD® SB850
RAID 1+0 10 or what ever.
[ a1 || a2 ] + [ b1 || b2 ] + [ c1 || c2 ] - Disks A1 and A2 are striped together as goes for B1/2 and C1/2.. array A is "master" and array B and C mirrors A. Adding more mirrors will NOT increase capacity.
(you can of course expand with A3, B3 and C3. increasing overall capacity. but consuming tree more disks.)
That setup consumes 6 disks, and will survive a up to two disk failure.
OTOH
RAID 6 requires a minimum of four disk and will use two disks for parity.
Hower it will survide up to two disk failure. And by merging more disks you will increase overall storage. And maintaining two disk failure.
Like i have said before. i see no real reason to use mirroring!
To run OS faster, stripe two SSD disks together on motherboard controller. And use ONLY system on that controller. My friend has reached read speeds of over 400MB/sec doing so!
As for speeds... on a private home network you will rarely use the max drive speeds.
I have raided 6 120gig PATA disks, alone they are slow as hell.. but in a raid they are lightning fast. And i never saw anything to evidence speed penalties.
If you want os to run faster.. buy yourself a hyperdrive V5!
Or even raid multiple hyperdrive 5...
http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/(but now we are getting seriously expensive!!!)
Or upgrade RAM or/and CPU....
Move editing: while working on files: RAID 0. For storing files: RAID 5 or 6... MHO
I use vegas video 4 (predecessor to sony vegas 9) whit a similar setup.. Disk speed was never an issue.. CPU AND RAM is!
Get a dual Xeon HT quad core 64gig ram and Nvidia Quadro... That will render movies a bit faster.
Backup is NEVER underestimated...