Date: 10/05/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

I have a tower system with which I'm quite happy. I need to get myself about a TB of fast RAID, but the tower is full, and I'm not prepared to pull the 6 disks already in there and replace them with more capacity.

Am I thinking an external HD array with a fast SCSI card? Put in 4 500GB Maxtors and do RAID 1 or RAID 5? Or is RAID 0+1 a decent solution these days?

This is for a photo editing system, so I'll regularly be opening and closing 100MB files. As such, network-attached storage isn't really an option.

Are there any non-SCSI raid cards that support external arrays, or is SCSI pretty-much the only way to go these days? For the price, I'd prefer to use SATA, but I can't seem to find any SATA raid controllers that support external drives. Maybe just upgrade the tower to a huge tower with more room for drives?

Opinions?

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