Raid0 on 2 x 1TB or 4 x 500 GB?
August 7th, 2016
this part confuses me.
The only other config I am considering is Raid0 on 4 x 1TB drives or
Raid0 on 2 x 1.5TB drives
cheers
Raid0 on 2 x 1.5TB drives
Raid0 on 2 x 1.5TB drives
Or I would suppose if I went 4 x 1TB drives on raid 10 I could afford to loose the space the raid array steals. At least then No redundancy.
Oh the dilemma lol
My OS drive never goes above 160GB after loaded with my apps, I need the raid and large swap file because some of the images I work with are 20GB in file size.
Why not just get an external hard drive, sounds like it could help you loads.
Well at what RPM speed do they go? Also speed shouldnt matter whether its 1TB or 500GB Raid setting as long as you have them well defragged. If your files are just place randomly all over in a 1TB HDD it will be slow.
raid 01 on 4 1tb drives. the reason is the you dont want your drive to fail on a raid 0 and then everything is lost but if you use 4 drives and a 01 you will first get the perfomance of a 0 raid and then the back up of a 1 raid.
just remember, if 1 drive files in a raid0 setup all data on both hdd’s will be lost
just remember, if 1 drive files in a raid0 setup all data on both hdd’s will be lostthats the reason that you run 10/01 just because you get speed and back up at all times
kidd wrote: Select all
just remember, if 1 drive files in a raid0 setup all data on both hdd's will be lost
thats the reason that you run 10/01 just because you get speed and back up at all times
I know, I was just giving a warning about this
Answer #9
kidd wrote: Select all
kidd wrote: Select all
just remember, if 1 drive files in a raid0 setup all data on both hdd's will be lost
thats the reason that you run 10/01 just because you get speed and back up at all times
I know, I was just giving a warning about this
fair enough it is also imporant to understand why is the raid is needed for.
Answer #10
Why would anyone waste their money on a 10/01 RAID? It’s not a backup solution.
Accidentally delete a file? It’s gone.
Malware ~ censored ~ your windows installation? Time to format.
Get a RAID 0, a large external disk and Acronis True Image. It’s what I do I, for one, would rather have the risk of hard disk failure leading to me losing ~1 day of work than the risk of just about anything going wrong software-wise with no backup at all.
Answer #11
Why would anyone waste their money on a 10/01 RAID? It's not a backup solution.
Accidentally delete a file? It's gone.
Malware ~censored~ your windows installation? Time to format.
Get a RAID 0, a large external disk and Acronis True Image. It's what I do I, for one, would rather have the risk of hard disk failure leading to me losing ~1 day of work than the risk of just about anything going wrong software-wise with no backup at all.
Its not a back up like that its a back up incase of drive falure, becuase if your unlcuky on a raid 0 and you one drive fails one drive gets a formating error corrupted or anything of the sorts of error your files are gone and their is nothing you can do beacuase half of each file is on each drive so a 10 raid will give you speed and also back up the file incase of a drive failing. I never do a raid 0 because i dont want a drive to fail and thats it i use raid 1 on my music failes or hard to replace files.
Answer #12
Here’s a good config in my eyes
Raid 5
3 x Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB = Total usable space 3TB
Almost fast as Raid 0 but if one drive was to fail the array is undamaged and will function fine but at a reduced speed until the failed drive is replaced.
Answer #13
here’s how I see it. if you want to use raid you’ll most likely want to use it for the speed boost so use raid 0. as for data protection, making a back up & keeping it up to date is easy enough to do. there’s programs to sync folders to external hdd on a daily/hourly base & so, that should keep your data safe. in the worst case scenario you might have to reinstall your OS & programs after a crash, but your data will be safe.
also, as soon as you start looking at RAID with 3 or more disks raid 0, 1 or 10/01 are no longer the best options, things like raid 5 & other versions of RAIDs are a lot more interesting since they have both a speed increase and a higher safety level then normal raid.
as a last thing I do want to point out that it even though RAID does has the down side that if one disk fails the other one’s useless, if you’ve just set the up as say 1 OS disk 1 data disk or data on both & (one of) the data disks failed your screwed just as hard.
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