Thread: So I've got two 500GB HDs...
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Old October 27th, 2007, 01:24 PM
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Default Re: So I\'ve got two 500GB HDs...
A mirrored array (RAID 1) provides read performance improvements. The write performance loss is irrelevant outside of a heavy-performance server environment, given the high speeds of disk I/O with modern drives anyways.

NEVER use a basic striped array without parity (RAID 0)! You will lose all of your data when one drive dies. Lack of fault tolerance is worse than useless in a RAID array.

(the striped with parity RAID configurations aren't relevant to this discussion, as Narf is limited to 2 drives)
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