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  1. 3pwood
    I use teracopy, it's popular but honestly I'm not impressed, had stability problems with it on my old Windows 7 PC, then again when I switched to Windows 10 and now on my new Windows 10 PC it still isn't as stable as I'd like it to be. I've googled stuff and looked at articles on the web but a lot of the software they mention seems to be out of development or the developer website looks unprofessional then that already puts me off the software. Heck I saw the word 'recored' on the easersoft website...and some list support for up to Windows 8 hence out of development as I said. I like that teracopy is a simple replacement for default Windows copy so I'd really like something like that with a simple interface that gives you more control too cuz some of the stuff I've seen on the web have terrible chunky interfaces that leave a lot to be desired.
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    Well the parity part is kinda the point for me doing RAID to begin with, lol...hmmm, will look into cards.
  3. 3pwood
    Wow! Aren't you just a wealth of knowledge. Lol...so in conclusion you prefer storage spaces rather than onboard RAID 5...noted.
  4. 3pwood
    That is quite interesting and informative...SSDs are expensive in my li'l third world country though, think I'll have to live with write performance hit and enjoy the read performance. THAT being said a new bios was released for my board and I did some practical testing by copying movies across the network to the RAID array and I was getting 50-60+MB/s...I think I can live with that, only did 1 test for now though, wrote around 20-30GB to monitor transfer rate, need to test how it works with smaller files like pictures and documents, working with a 128k strip size as that seems to be the general consensus on the internet.
  5. 3pwood
    Nah, the SSD is my OS drive, the IronWolf Pro drives are gonna be for mass storage in RAID 5.
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    Yeah I'd read that it sucks BUT that again was people comparing it to proper RAID and not onboard RAID so just wanted to be sure I'm not doing something wrong.
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    Thank you for that, yeah I know about the parity so I know that's why it's slower...and I have an 8700K with 32GB RAM so hence not too concerned with RAID using up some of that when writing, thing is it's a media/archive server so I won't be writing to it all the time everyday and as I said I'll be the only one writing to the array at all so I'm ok with all this. The transfer to another rig will be an issue though but then again before I built this new PC my last one was built in 2009 so maybe I'll just cross that bridge when I get there as it's unlikely I'd want to use the same drives in a new rig anyway due to warranty concerns mainly.
  8. 3pwood
    Hi guys, posted here once before and got some good feedback, original thread can be found here: So to recap this is the hardware I'm working with: Asus ROG Maximus X code, seagate ST8000NE0004 Enterprise Nas hdd ( IronWolf Pro )*3 Samsung MZ-V6P1T0BW 1000Gb 960 Pro So it was suggested to me to use software RAID rather than onboard hardware RAID so I haven't had much testing time but yesterday I played around with Windows 10 Storage Spaces and then with the motherboard onboard RAID and transfer rates obviously fluctuate but I feel I get better transfer rates using onboard RAID...or am I doing something wrong? Any advice or thoughts on this? Any pros and cons I need to consider regarding expanding the array or transferring it to another PC at a later stage? I'm not really too concerned about CPU utilization when writing because with an 8700K I don't feel it's a huge issue. Also the PC is more or less standalone so for the most part I'll be the only one writing to it though might be multiple devices reading from it once I populate the drives and setup Plex Media Server.
  9. 3pwood
    Retard!!! No just kidding, lol...on the bright side you made me go back and read my emails to ASUS to ensure that I specified RAID 5 to them and I didn't accidentally type RAID 6...but I did say RAID 5 and even if I'd said RAID 6 their response should've then been to tell me that the board doesn't do RAID 6. lol.
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    Well cost isn't a concern if I'm going to be using the onboard RAID though because technically I already have it. lol... I have heard about the downside of onboard RAID being more CPU cycles and also a bigger hit in write speeds? I've had 2 thoughts on this: 1. The videos I saw addressing all these were years old so I was hoping that with newer hardware a lot of the performance concerns would be mitigated? 2. I'm wanting a RAID setup for the parity because I'm tired of losing 2 or 3TB of data when I lose a drive. Now my usage case will be mainly as a media server so in my mind I wouldn't think write speeds OR the CPU cycles for parity would be that big a concern because I'm not going to be writing gigs and gigs of data to it everyday. I could be wrong though and this is where posting to a forum comes in...to get opinions from others who have more experience with this kind of setup and usage?
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    I thought hardware RAID would be more reliable and robust than software but again I'll look into it. And yeah I'd never want my OS drive to sit on a RAID array, that just feels like asking for trouble hence me buying a 1TB m.2.
  12. 3pwood
    Yes I think they are getting it confused. I was just about to post a link to a LTT video explaining RAID 5 and 6, lol...but as you can see someone in this forum AND more importantly ASUS techs who you'd think would know their products say 4 disk minimum. If a RAID controller is too expensive for me (as suggested in previous post) then I'll do onboard RAID 5 and I'll first mess around with the different ONBOARD SATA ports to test speeds and functionality before populating the array.
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    Hmmm, I'll try to find pricing for RAID controllers in my country but I was really hoping to not have to install more expensive hardware than need be. I'll look into it though thanks.
  14. 3pwood
    This is getting so confusing. The guides I read said 3 disk minimum, the storage calculators I used said 3 as well, I tested this by specifying 2 and it said you need a minimum of 3 disks for RAID 5...now some are saying I need 3 disks and others are saying 4. Even google says 3: How many hard drives do you need for RAID 5? The minimum number of disks in a RAID 5 set is three (two for data and one for parity). The maximum number of drives in a RAID 5 set is in theory unlimited, although your storage array is likely to have built-in limits. However, RAID 5 only protects against a single drive failure.
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    The parts: Asus ROG Maximus X code, seagate ST8000NE0004 Enterprise Nas hdd ( IronWolf Pro )*3 Samsung MZ-V6P1T0BW 1000Gb 960 Pro Questions: I've read that the m.2 shares bandwidth with 1 of the SATA ports so does this mean that in my RAID 5 setup I should avoid using the 1st SATA port? Just to be clear the point is to have the m.2 as my primary standalone drive and then the 3 SATA disks need to be setup in RAID 5. I was hoping to avoid using forums for this question but after a few emails back and forth with ASUS support staff due to misunderstandings I got the attached response that just makes me feel that they really don't know what they're talking about.
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