Hi,
I'm planning to build a new RAID system. I'm looking towards of Promise EX8350 controller as it supports RAID 6. However, I have now started to think about RAID 5+1 disk as a hot spare with automatic rebuild.
What do you think? They both should be quite as secure, but RAID 5 is faster? My RAID system is to serve as media center and a NAS with 8 disks, so the security is the top priority (but I'm not willing to spend to that more than 2 drives).
Another question if I may, do you know about online capacity expansion with RAID cards (or specially EX8350)? If I decide to buy 4 HDD's now and split them 100mb to C:\ and 200mb to D:\ - after buying another 4 HDD's to my max, will I still have 100mb on C:\ and 200mb on D:\ and the new space available to allocate as a new drive E:\ OR will this go directly to my old C:\ and D:\ drives to make them twice as big -> 200mb and 400mb?
Thank you for your help!
Artsi
I'm planning to build a new RAID system. I'm looking towards of Promise EX8350 controller as it supports RAID 6. However, I have now started to think about RAID 5+1 disk as a hot spare with automatic rebuild.
What do you think? They both should be quite as secure, but RAID 5 is faster? My RAID system is to serve as media center and a NAS with 8 disks, so the security is the top priority (but I'm not willing to spend to that more than 2 drives).
Another question if I may, do you know about online capacity expansion with RAID cards (or specially EX8350)? If I decide to buy 4 HDD's now and split them 100mb to C:\ and 200mb to D:\ - after buying another 4 HDD's to my max, will I still have 100mb on C:\ and 200mb on D:\ and the new space available to allocate as a new drive E:\ OR will this go directly to my old C:\ and D:\ drives to make them twice as big -> 200mb and 400mb?
Thank you for your help!
Artsi