jhsrennie Wrote:I would always use a hardware RAID controller rather than Gollum's suggestion.
Post the model of the disks and the raid controller and I'll look them up.
JR
Yes and no I'd say. When I was in the research and planning process for a media server (with some redundancy) I gave this a good thought. My conclusion was that for a consumer like myself, the choice of hardware raid came with the risk of ending up with a broken controller/MB and having to source one for /perhaps/ quite a premium price or loose the array.
Long story short, I choose SW raid (FreeNAS in my case) since a HW breakdown wont matter (if the disks stay good), just build a new rig, add the disks, plug in the OS USB and off you are (hopefully).
To OP:
No offence, but seriously, take a deep breath...
Then read up a bit about the various RAID levels and pros and cons that come with them. As it is now you have - based on some premature perception of low performance at write - jumped all the way into the other ditch and choosen a setup which is performance only. No redundancy, no "risk management", it's basically pants down...
You should go somewhere in the direction of RAID 1, 5, 6 and, if building a separate machine, perhaps also look into stuff like unRAID (see forum hardware section).