raid setups
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- frankbb0
I have been running Raid on XP for one plus years, no problems.
I would recomend getting a Hardware raid card that doesn't use the cpu. You will know if its hardware raid because it cost £500+
Make sure you get the same hardrives as well. With the best seek time and rpm, other wise it aint worth it! Backing up wise RAID 5 is your best bet, If you see a card that say 1+0 stripe, this is like raid 5,but uses the cpu to back up. on to your other discs.
How many disc you thinking of getting?? 4 plus obviously if doing raid 5..
I would say Raid with scsi as they are faster, normally have bigger buffer memory, I have both SCSI and IDE devices raid, and there is that much in them for performance wise.
Best bet go to http://www.tomshardware.com and read up on there