Hi All,
We are currently looking to purchase new disk drives for an Alpha 2100a.
We are currenly using Storage Works RAID array 200, Raid level 5.  I would
appreciate any opinions on the following:
  Which is faster, raid level 5 or mirroring?
  Is assigning each drive in the raid controller a separate scsi 
id(channel?) worth while?  How do you do this?
  Is anyone using raid level 0+1, is this better than raid level 5?
  Is it better, more efficient, to have 3 or 4 drives in the raid 
controller?
We are looking to purchase either 9 or 18 gig drives.  Any advice is
greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance!
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Received on Mon Sep 28 1998 - 12:44:18 NZST