Hard drive questions

[ymc]

I thinking about building a machine with two Xeon E5520s and 32GB RAM.

I am thinking about storing Illumina's SNP idat files for 2,000 samples. Plan to run base calling and SNP imputation algorithms.

I want to set up RAID using two 2TB hard drives. I heard that there are several RAID setups, like RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10. What are the differences?

What else do I need to know about hard drives to maximize the performance of my system?

Thanks in advance

[ECO]

This has been covered here before, and covered much better on other sites. I don't think it's fair to expect people to retype what each raid type is when it's available in many other sites.

Closing.