RAID questions

[linus7]

can someone explain to me what raids are? whats the difference between them(?) and whats the best one to run your drive at?

[FileCorrupted]

From the man himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7Bfw9lFfs

[X1XNobleX1X]

can someone explain to me what raids are? whats the difference between them(?) and whats the best one to run your drive at?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7Bfw9lFfs

[FileCorrupted]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7Bfw9lFfs

I just posted that lol

[X1XNobleX1X]

I just posted that lol

We both posted it within seconds of each other. 

[FileCorrupted]

We both posted it within seconds of each other. 

Me first lol

[N7_Zer0]

Here's the one for RAID-5 AND 6 (which should not be done with onboard "fake" RAID, need a hardware card for optimum performance since it requires parity calculations).

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P8ZecG9iOI

[mpeb1223]

I am building my first sytem with SSD's in Raid 10. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction regarding optimizing Raid settings and tweaking the drive settings. Currently set at: STRIPE:128k, GIGABYTE BOUNDRY: on, READ POLICY: read ahead, WRITE POICY: writeback....pretty much standard.

 

I'm not sure how to tweak SSDs in a RAID. Also, I usually install Windows7 and leave space for a Linux install, but I'm not sure yet that  I want to go with RAID 10 due to the loss of capaicty....but I want a shot at getting my data back if it fails. Thoughts?

 

O/S: Windows7/Ubuntu13.10

HARDWARE:

AMD FX8350 8core CPU

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 MB

Gigabyte GTX670-OC 4GB video card

G.skill DDR3-1866 RAM 4x8GB

4x Kingston Hyper-X 120GB SSDs (550mb/s read & 510mb/s write) RAID10 (O/S)

2x 2GB Western Digital black 2TB (storage)

 

 

 

Thanks in advance for any insight.