ICH10R X58 Raid 5

I did a little playing around with some extra hard disks yesterday to see what the on board SATA ports would do on my old Intel DX58s02 LGA1366 MB. I seemed to have discovered and then maybe read here and on the net that Raid 5 is a no go in terms of performance. While reads were in the 100MBps, writes were in the 5 to 20. I setup Raid 0 and did get a performance gain that was almost a multiple of disks individual speeds. I would like to be make a large/fast raid eventually, but it looks like I will need to build for the future since you seem to have to live with a system after its has a bunch of data on it. Raid 10 could be an option, but a hardware controller is probably a better choice since Raid 10 will mean more money on hard drives as opposed to spending money on a controller. I have not done the math, but a six disc 4TB system will get you almost 12 TB Raid 10, while Raid 5 will get you close to 20. It would have been nice to use the onboard ports, but it appears the software RAID 5 really stinks when moving data onto the disks. I don't think an ARECA is in my budget, but either that, or maybe a HighPoint? Am I missing anything?
Thanks,
Scott

Unless you have a real hardware RAID processor, you will not get any performnce worthwhile out of the Intel RAID on RAID 5.  It is only practical on none-Parity RAID like 0 or !.  You need something like Areca or LSI RAID controller to get the Redundancy of RAID.  For Video editing the preferred Parity RAID is not RAID 5, what yoyu really should look at is RAID 3 or 6.  Harm has an article in his Tweakers Page that you should read

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