Computer Hard Drive Configuration

:confused::confused::confused: What is distributed parity? Why does raid 4 cause bottlenecks? How many disks for raid 4 raid 5?
So you got raid 4, drive A,a,a*. B,b,B*.C,c,c*. Suppose the are all 500GB, where is parity going and how big is this set up?

Looks like I need drive D for parity, but then I never considered a raid before, I thought that ram was the major thing that determines speed with graphics. :o

Colin,

The new generation of SSDs are much faster thean the best of the spinning drives, including the raptors and long estimated life spans.

-Sonic

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by arith

Looks like I need drive D for parity, but then I never considered a raid before, I thought that ram was the major thing that determines speed with graphics. :o

---

RAM is the main consideration in editing performance, the aspect that fast HDDs gives you is that it can load/save files much faster.

-Sonic

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sonic4Spuds

Colin,

The new generation of SSDs are much faster thean the best of the spinning drives, including the raptors and long estimated life spans.

-Sonic

---

Yes - I've had a chat with Sean offline about them. It seems that the older generation were a bit "toss a coin" when it came to performance -v- RAID 0 Raptors, but the new generation seem to have progressed quite nicely. Having said that though, I suspect that the new Raptors in a RAID 0 (with all the buffering and look-ahead caching that goes on) may in reality give an overall system performance for certain types of files thats "more than adequate".

I'm looking forward to trying one none-the-less though.