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January 13, 2013 at 10:48 AM
mattcollinsuk

Mixed Raid Drives

by mattcollinsuk . Updated 13 years, 5 months ago

Hello All,

First post, long time reader here.

What is the best possible raid configuration I can get with the following disks?

2 x 500 GB 7200 RPM 16 mb Cache SATA 3 GB
2 x 500 GB 7200 RPM 64 mb Cache SATA 6 GB

Going into a HP ProLiant Turion II N40L MicroServer.

1 x 250 GB for the OS (going into the ODD drive)

I’m using this server to learn on, so nothing is critical, (hence not doing it properly and having 4 identical drives) just want the best possible performance and redundancy without buying another 2 hard drives, because of the different speeds.

After doing abit of research I have come up with RAID 10 as a possible solution and just slow the two faster drives down, to match the others. What do others think?

Thanks in advance.

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