I'm building a file server for about 4 computers to feed off of. Mostly is going to be an archiving/streaming kind of machine for video and multimedia files. It will probably end up doing a lot of video encoding also, and will eventually be playing multimedia files to a TV.
My question here is, what is the real-world advantage of using a 3 or 4 disk RAID-0 array over just 2? The cost isn't a huge factor, but if the benefits aren't tangible, I'd rather apply that $300-$400 worth of hard disk into a processor or RAM.
I'm going between 8MB/250GB SATA drives and the 74GB Raptors right now, from what I've seen the Raptors benefit greatly up to a 4 disk array, but the cost starts to pile up.
My question here is, what is the real-world advantage of using a 3 or 4 disk RAID-0 array over just 2? The cost isn't a huge factor, but if the benefits aren't tangible, I'd rather apply that $300-$400 worth of hard disk into a processor or RAM.
I'm going between 8MB/250GB SATA drives and the 74GB Raptors right now, from what I've seen the Raptors benefit greatly up to a 4 disk array, but the cost starts to pile up.
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