Would there be any drawbacks if i set up RAID-5 on 2.5” HDDs instead of 3.5”?
RAID-5 is deprecated.
you will have 1 inch less performance
>>52111718
First thing that comes to mind is speed because of most notebook drives having less cache and rpm, but I guess it depends on your use case.
>>52111718
Less speed.
Less realiability.
Less capacity.
More expensive.
Otherwise no.
>>52111736
It has its uses still. It gets a bad reputation because people use it incorrectly.
>>52111718
Advantages
>Less Power consuption
>Smaller in size
Disadvantages
>>52111893
>>52111746
So the ladies won't like it?
>>52111736
>>52113141
how is it used incorrectly?
>>52113720
It's only useful in a few specific cases. It is not super reliable (only RAID0 is more unreliable) so don't use it for increased reliability. If you use any drives >1TB the chances of a rebuild error become really high. Also has somewhat slow write speed.
Ideal situation for RAID5 would be a read heavy environment (things like database files; but not tempdbs or logs due to write performance) using 10-15k RPM 600-900GB drives in a 4+1.
Using RAID5 for large disks for media storage or backups is pants on head retarded.
5 divides by 2.5 which means they would all zero out and division by 0 breaks the computer
trust me, i got a diploma
>>52111718
no, except for cost/GB
