Local Network for a Web Development Team

Network, Lan, and Raid 10 and 5

[patmagpantay]

Hello, I am planning to build a computer server for our office, I attached a link of the network diagram please tell me your inputs. We plan to host a website in the future, share files, back up, etc. We are new to this server network setup but we have been using workgroup sharing for quire sometime now. I am still confused on which RAID to use having 3 seagate 320 GB's what would you advice a RAID 10 or 5. Thanks!

[edited by: encyclo at 10:36 pm (utc) on Nov. 10, 2007]
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[jtara]

I am still confused on which RAID to use having 3 seagate 320 GB's what would you advice a RAID 10 or 5.

Does not compute. "Raid 10" is either somebody's proprietary marketing term, or (according to Wikipedia) RAID 1 + Raid 0. Probably not something you want to do, nor something you can do with only 3 drives.

If your goal is redundancy in the case of a failed disk drive, you want RAID 5.

But you may be getting ahead of yourself. I'd worry about your backup scheme (which you must have anyway - RAID doesn't protect against human mistakes, software error, or natural disasters) before I'd even begin to consider RAID.

[mjwalshe]

RAID 10 is raid 1 and raid 0 together

Baiscly it is a mirrored pair of disks (4) in its simplext form