Number of Drives in a RAID 0
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:38 amI'm having a bit of trouble deciding between:
Would you go for the extra performance of 5 disks? Or is it just not worth it and is the reduced heat and risk of drive failure better on 3 disks?
A note: Hopefully, by the end of December, I will have a fourth computer dedicated solely to backing up all information on all my computers, so the risk of data loss will be slightly negated.
- 3 250GB
- 5 160GB
Would you go for the extra performance of 5 disks? Or is it just not worth it and is the reduced heat and risk of drive failure better on 3 disks?
A note: Hopefully, by the end of December, I will have a fourth computer dedicated solely to backing up all information on all my computers, so the risk of data loss will be slightly negated.