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Hi,
Just wanted to garner people's opinion on whether
or not to use RAID for my Media Server.
Basically I am not interested in Data Redundancy,
Hot-Swapping etc - If the machine goes down then I will restore from a regular
backup and if that takes a couple of days then so be it.
What I am interested in though is fast I/O
Throughput for Reading Data because I want my Media Streaming (Music, Video etc)
to be as fast as possible and I am not sure whether it would be better to remain
with a normal Drive (probably SATA?) or to use RAID.
My thinking behind this is that with certain modes
of RAID you can have the Data Striped across different disks and was wondering
whether that would offer any advantage during reading of data - Note either RAID
or not I'm not too bothered about Write Speed since most of the stuff will be
encoded once and simply stored (except obviously for TV Recording).
Thanks in advance for your views.
Regards,
Dave. |
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