bakua

I mostly care about read speeds though.

So you think getting 1x 8TB with an enclosure is a better option? What if the drive dies? With RAID, I would have at least a way to somehow resurrect the data,

Hey guys, I'm getting tired of having 7 different drives in their own enclosures and fiddling with what's where all the time. I've found out that I have three solutions. NAS, dummy HDD enclosure, HDD enclosure with HW raid. NAS is not suitable for my use case, since I won't use the solution for my home network only. I have to be able to access it from different computers, on different locations. Internet transfer speeds are way to low, and multiple access at the same time is not an requirement. This leaves me with some HDD box enclosure. I was looking at Enclosure without RAID controller and Enclosure with RAID controller. With the later one, I preset RAID option on box, put drives in and I am good to go on any computer. Dat hw raid controller though... With the first one, after I plug the box to my PC, I have to create software RAID, piece of cake. My question is, since I prefer software RAID, will I be able to easily take to box and plug it to another computer? I mean, after I set it up for the first time, is it just plug and play ever since? Or do I have to do some setup every time for all computers I want to use it on? Windows only PCs, RAID 5. Thanks bakua

It is so small! (that's what she said)