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Diesay
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looking at updating to ssd boot drive and then wd reds for mass storage.

 

my questions is can i have two raid arrays. raid zero boot (two drives) and raid ten mass storage (four drives)

 

and i still can't make up my mind on the ssd. i have been looking at intel 730 or samsung evo or are there better choices.

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Yes!

 

In raid those are known as "Containers" usually, and you can run multiple containers on a single machine.  However... if you're going to run many containers off your motherboards integrated RAID controller, it could lead to a serious performance decrease, especially with complicated RAID versions.

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looking at updating to ssd boot drive and then wd reds for mass storage.

 

my questions is can i have two raid arrays. raid zero boot (two drives) and raid ten mass storage (four drives)

 

and i still can't make up my mind on the ssd. i have been looking at intel 730 or samsung evo or are there better choices.

 

 

Hey Diesay,
 
@RichardsD gave you some good input. I would consider using a single SSD for a boot drive as RAID0 doubles the rist of failure and data loss. Your booting time would actually increase compared to a single-drive booting time. I would suggest using those SSDs separately (they are already fast enough) and using WD Red drives in whichever RAID you believe is great (depending on what lever of redundancy and how big of a speed boost you are looking for as well as the number of drives).
 
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Having dual independent RAID setup depends on the motherboard. One set of RAID is run on the Intel Chipset and the other by a 3rd party like Marvell, Asmedia, LSI, etc. Now if there the board don't support dual independent RAID, then grab a PCIe SATA RAID card. RAID 1+0 a combination of performance and redundancy does not give mass storage, it cuts the capacity in half. So if you got 4x WD RED 3TB. In RAID 1+0, in only gives you 6TB of disk, instead of the full 12TB.

With the same number of drives running on RAID 5, will give you 9TB of disk space.

 

 

 

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