Javacat
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Anyone got a link for some site that's got stats for different RAID setups with different types of hard drives or experience with them? I'm basically in need of some statistics comparing SAS drives in RAID 5 and SATA drives in RAID 10. I've looked all over, but can't find any sites with a decent amount of information.
The situation is I'm pricing up a file server for an SMB (which means the price needs keeping down) that needs to be as fast as possible, with as high capacity as possible. For the price of 4 SAS drives (that would be run in RAID 5 to maximize the storage, giving me just 900GB of space) I could get 8 SATA drives (that would be run in RAID 10, hopefully giving a very nice performance increase, better fault tolerance and 2TB of storage) and still save money.
For anyone interested, I'm looking at the HP DL180 G5 using HPs hot-swappable hard drives, which would be running Windows Server 2003 Standard.
The situation is I'm pricing up a file server for an SMB (which means the price needs keeping down) that needs to be as fast as possible, with as high capacity as possible. For the price of 4 SAS drives (that would be run in RAID 5 to maximize the storage, giving me just 900GB of space) I could get 8 SATA drives (that would be run in RAID 10, hopefully giving a very nice performance increase, better fault tolerance and 2TB of storage) and still save money.
For anyone interested, I'm looking at the HP DL180 G5 using HPs hot-swappable hard drives, which would be running Windows Server 2003 Standard.