Which RAID setup to go for?

[jonwoad]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1987972,00.asp

Quite a good but brief article on RAID setups

[Audigex]

I like the description of RAID 5, useful.

Anyone got any info on whether that can be done with standard MOBOs? I'm looking at a mid range motherboard with 2/3 HDDs - if I can put them in raid 5 I might be tempted by 3x 500gb drives (which I think would give 1tb total storage?)

[wonderlust]

Most modern boards allow Raid 5, but the performance is not so good.

If you really want to run Raid, buy an Hardware Raid Card. The Performance difference is huge.

[marsey99]

you think the difference is that big? i had read that they only came into their own if you had more than like 4 drives setup?

i have my 2 striped again, loads games like lightning :)

[wonderlust]

I was taking about Raid 5 and above really, where the CPU has to do the parity calculations.