Raid 10 or Raid 5?

Yes it does matter.
Raid 10 is faster than Raid 5, however it will need twice
the number of disks. So if you have two disjs of 10 gb
each, the most you can get out of them is 10 gb NOT 20.
Raid 5 is slower but is better with disks so you will get
more space.
As you only have a couple of disks I sugest raid 5
J

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>Is raid 10 better than 5 with only 3 h/drives. Does no of

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depends on your needs. If READ is the primary function, RAID5 makes
sense because its less costly, but write is primary function
RAID10(0+1) is the best solution.|||But she can't do a RAID 10 with just 3 drives. It's either a Raid 1 and you
loose a drive or Raid 5.
Andrew J. Kelly
SQL Server MVP
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> depends on your needs. If READ is the primary function, RAID5 makes
> sense because its less costly, but write is primary function
> RAID10(0+1) is the best solution.

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