Q. For our small office we need a file server to hold all our data. We have GBit network in office. I need to consider following factors:
1 TB RAID
Read and Write speed are same (Performance)
Redundancy is important
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Can you suggest the best RAID solution for us?
A. You need to use RAID card don’t go for Linux software based RAID solution. My suggestion is go for RAID 10 to get
- Reliability
- Speed
- Redundancy
Make sure your RAID controller has a lot of cache.
Posted by: Vivek Gite
The author is the creator of nixCraft and a seasoned sysadmin, DevOps engineer, and a trainer for the Linux operating system/Unix shell scripting. Get the latest tutorials on SysAdmin, Linux/Unix and open source topics via RSS/XML feed or weekly email newsletter.
