what exactly is the difference? what warrants using one of the expensive cards?
I tend to use / need a lot of space, and I already have 2 500gb drives [and a lot of other drives, but I couldn't use those in the array] and I'm about to purchase more space so I figured raid was a logical jump. I'm figuring raid 5.
main questions:
1) onboard or raid card? why?
2) is the slowdown from using raid 5 for writes significant? should I use raid 5 just for a "data" array and have my main drive be something else?
3) anything else in particular I should be aware of?
I tend to use / need a lot of space, and I already have 2 500gb drives [and a lot of other drives, but I couldn't use those in the array] and I'm about to purchase more space so I figured raid was a logical jump. I'm figuring raid 5.
main questions:
1) onboard or raid card? why?
2) is the slowdown from using raid 5 for writes significant? should I use raid 5 just for a "data" array and have my main drive be something else?
3) anything else in particular I should be aware of?