RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more hard disk drives. The RAID 5 configuration is best suited for transaction processing, relational database applications, enterprise resource planning, and other business systems. Use a minimum of three identical hard disk drives for this setup. RAID 10 is data striping and data mirroring combined without parity redundancy data having to be calculated and written. This is likely to be the easiest solution to your problem if you can[…]
