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Hey All, I am looking for some guidance if possible. I wanted to update my media pc what i wanted to do was add 4 new 8tb drives and set them up in a raid where all 4 drives are seen as one so roughly ~32TB. At least from the information I've found on line to be able to do that I'd have to do a Raid 5 setup correct? Which at least from what I'm seeing online seems to be a no no? I was going to built a new ryzen build for the setup but my amd mobo doesn't have raid 5 as an option so I'll use my 7700kw/mobo. To have all 4 drives seen as one and if one of them fails I can easily swap with another 8tb drive and not lose my data the Raid 5 option would be best correct? Appreciate the time and help you guys provide :)
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Little bit of background I am in the process of building a new computer I wanted to try something new by using a RAID 5 setup, but, I am running into some problems for the most part I think I understand how to set it all up through bios but I am having issues figuring out what RAID card to get that best fits my needs been searching around on here for some answers and its kinda all over the place so I figured maybe this is a case by case sort of problem so ill list out what I have so far. First RAID 1/0/10 are not options I don't want to do them even though I understand they are simpler and require less work, I am pushing my self to do a RAID 5 setup. OS: Win 10 Drives: 6x Kingston 120GB A400 SSDs Type of RAID Card: PCIE x8 (no nvme/m.2 pcie) Don't think the rest of the computer matters at this point really just looking for information on what raid card to get; - what's the difference between Controllers and HBA controllers - is there really a need to go full controller over adaptor (maybe this isn't even the right question) - What performance hits will I take going with a lesser brand then over the industry standard brands (LSI vs Intel) - is there any other specifics about raid cards I should consider before buying one that I haven't covered. - what if any software do I need to manage my RAID 5 setup such as in the case if I lose a drive do I need software to rebuild the array. - should I have a raid card with a battery to improve redundancy or is this too cost prohibitive for typical home use. - what exactly is RAID "code" (looks like it has something to do with the algorithm that controls which data goes on what drive but im not 100% sure) and does it even matter for what I am trying to do? - when buying a raid card is ideal to buy 2 of the same card incase one craps out? (see a lot of people ask this question no real answer) - when buying a RAID card is buying used (ebay) considered a bad idea (mostly asking in terms of saving money if possible if I dont need to spend upward of 2000$ that would be nice but if its a must its a must) any help is appreciated thank you very much. edit: been adding some more questions as I am looking for the answers so you may want to refresh every so often if you are considering helping.
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I have a noob question regarding my NAS. I pulled an old computer out of my local transfer station that had three 1.5 TB WD Greens in it, so I decided to set up this computer with TrueNAS and use it as a NAS. In a shocker to absolutely nobody one of the old 1.5TB WD greens has begun to fail after being used for only a few months. As I was aware that using older hard drives not designed for this use case which I literally found amongst the trash were likely to do this I set up all three drives in a raid 5 so I can lose a drive and not have to worry too much. As this drive is failing I want to preemptively purchase another one and install it in its place but I cannot find any new hard drives that are 1.5 TB. Could I purchase a 2 TB hard drive and just throw it in and then rebuild the array or will that cause a problem because it's a higher capacity than the drive it's replacing? I would assume this is not a problem but I want to double check before I do anything and potentially screw something up.
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I am trying to find a PCIe to Sata Raid controller/card that can do RAID 5, for now, for my home windows server 2012. Not very familiar with what PCIe to SATA raid cards are out there and while I know I could do RAID over motherboard SATA connectors, I have heard that RAID cards are better than doing software raid through the motherboard. I don't want to spend over $1k if possible and at the most $500 or less maybe? Let me know and thans in advance! -
I am wondering how problematic running a server with RAID 5 with different drive manufacturers is. I would theoretically have the odd drive as the spare. I plan on running these drives in an ATX Case with a Ryzen 7 2700 CPU. Unraid with file backups, plex, lancache. Server would have: 3x 6TB Toshiba N300 CMR 7200RPM (supports up to 8 bays) 1x 6TB WD Red Plus CMR 5400RPM (supports up to 8 bays) Are there any problems with this? -
Hi guys, I'm entirely new to RAID. I landed a job in a post-prod house where the previous tech did a RAID 5 array in a windows computer, total size 13TB of storage. But the problem, and I have just known this by researching is that this type of config without a RAID card give very slow write speed, about 20mb/s. I want to be able to solve this problem and I read that the only way to go is to buy a RAID card. So any help with what should I tell my boss to buy? Thanks in advance!
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I just configured a Avamar ADS Gen 3 Server and am unable to use the full raid drives storage amount. In the server I have 6x 1TB WD Red Drives. They are setup through an Dell Perc 6I Raid Controller in RAID 5. Nas4Free is the OS I'm using, It shows a 4TB Drive when Adding it. This makes sense because its RAID and the formatting. Although When Viewing the drives total size in the menu it shows up at 500GB. Any Ideas would be very helpful. Thank you in advance. Stats: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz RAM: 32 GB DDR3 Ram OS: Nas4Free 11.0.0.4 Drives: 6x 1TB WD Red RAID Controller: Dell Perc 6I RAID Config: RAID 5 Model: Avamar Gen 3
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I am looking to piece this mobo/cpu/ram combo: http://www.natex.us/Intel-S2600CP-Motherboard-Package-Deal-p/intel-s2600cp2j-128gb.htm With a few 1TB SSDs. I am either going to do RAID 1 with 2 SSD's or RAID 5 with 4 SSD's. I have never used a hardware RAID card so I am really not sure how to go about it and I am reading that ESXi is pretty picky with RAID cards. Is there a one-size-fits-all basic raid card? Is that even a good idea with SSD? Thanks!
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So to provide some insight I'm working on a lot of changes between a few of my PC's. In my main system I currently have my OS and main program files on my Samsung 850 pro, the bulk of my storage is on two Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 1TB hard drives in a raid 0 config (so effectively 2TB of storage), and then I use file copy software that I run usually every evening or while I'm working that copies everything to a WD Black 7200rpm 2TB drive so I know I have a safe backup. I also have just purchased two Crucial MX300 525GB SSD's (1.05TB of storage) that I am running in raid 0 for files that just sit there while I cannot physically connect my system to my server, this helps cut down time when copying over data or writing lots of data. And from there I move everything to my hard drives. I normally don't need more storage because my server has six WD Red Pro 7200rpm 6TB drives in raid 10 (effectively 18TB of storage), which was easy to setup as I could do it through my motherboard bios. But now with me moving my computers around a lot, and with starting the build of my 4th computer, which I will hook up to the server too. I'm looking for a raid 5 config for my main system. This way if I can't bring my server with me I'm not bringing my external hard drive reader and moving my data to a hard drive outside of my system (I have a library of hard drives). Now from my understanding running raid 5 is notoriously slow, however, all the info I have found on raid 5 configs seems to be like 3 years or older. Basically, I want to run raid 5 and have fast read and writes and if I need to move the hard drives to another system I don't want to have any issues. From what I can tell I will need a raid card, but as I said this info seems old. I have yet to use a raid card and am wondering if anyone has some insight for me? I will most likely be using three Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 3TB drives as they are the best $/GB here in Canada at the moment. If I need a raid card solution what brands should I look too? And will I have slower reads and writes then just a normal one hard drive storage config? (Side note I can only use three hard drives in this system so any suggestions to run four hard drives won't help me) Thanks for the help in advanced!
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Would this be any good for 4x4tb wd red raid 5. It's very cheap, and i'm wondering if it is too good to be true. http://www.lycom.com.tw/ST124.htm
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I have a computer case with 3 x 3.5" hard drive bays. I want to put 3 x 4TB hard drives in there, and RAID them to total them to 12TB. I am looking for a way to make 12TB of storage. What do you think is my best solution?
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i want to make a raid 5 array in freenas 11 i found this video but its for the old interface and i cant find the option @dalekphalmcan you help?
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if I do a raid 5 softraid (parity mode) can I add another drive later on? I plan on adding 3 drives and adding more later. I will be using hard drive sentinel to monitor drives and sent notification if something is about to fail or has failed. if you know a better way than doing it thru windows like another software fell free to suggest it.
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Today parts finally arrived for me to mess around with 4gb networking, and the results have largely been great except for one issue I am Using RAID5 (3x1tb drives), just some drives i had laying around since i can't afford the drives i want yet Downloading from the NAS is great, as you can see with my downloads file(attached picture) the 1.6gb file i had laying around FLEW uploading is a different story, it starts great, but halfway it drops down to 20MB/s, (attached picture) -i do know raid5 has slower write speeds but i wasn't expecting sudden drops I am using the Intel onboard raid controller, i have heard this could be an issue but before i fork out money on a raid-card, i figure i'd ask the community, especially if a workaround can be suggested or advised The drives in raid are 2X WD greens and a Seagate drive as said, i used ones that were laying around cause i wanted to test things before getting some better NAS drives so any help is appriciated
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I have a Dell T420 with a Perc H710 Monolithic Adapter running Windows 2012. It is a domain controller, file server and print server and a Ubiquiti controller, no remote applications though. It has 6x500GB drives in RAID 5. I've noticed a message that it is in need of a new firmware and driver update. I have no problem updating firmware and drivers on most devices but this one is company critical and I haven't worked on Servers or RAID arrays much. I'm a bit nervous to do this and have put it off for awhile but it's time that I should get it done. I'm also experiencing a disk error on one of the drives that was replaced after a failure due to a power outage that I wasn't able to right in time. Dell walked me through the replacement of it and it doesn't have any warnings in OpenManage. It is disk error 153. The error is the IO operation at block (one of 2 addresses) for disk 3 was retried. I've dug through Dell's support forums and technet but haven't found a solution yet. It also has iDRAC7 which I've never used and don't know if it's even set up. Current firmware is: Firmware Version 21.2.0-0007 Minimum Required Firmware Version 21.3.1-0001 Driver Version 6.801.05.00 Storport Driver Version 6.2.9200.16813 Any pointers, information, or solid guides would be much appreciated. I'm probably behind by a few updates now so if I have to update them one at a time instead of jumping to the newest one would also be useful to know. Thanks in advance!
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I am trying to create either a raid 5, or a raid 6 array in my new R730XD running Windows Server 2019, but I am running into a problem. I can create a simple (raid 0), and a mirrored (raid 1) array just fine, but when I try to use any kind of parity I receive an odd error. It errors and says: "The storage pool does not have sufficient eligible resources for the creation of the specified virtual disk." I have 8 x 14TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro drives in the machine, and I am trying to create the raid array with four of them, using a fifth for a hot spare. Please Help! I am testing this out now, and must get this working before I deploy it to a client. -
edit: I want to do something like this (Drobo 5D3) on my existing Win10 machine without spending $700 TLDR: I'm trying to make a simple and cost-effective hybrid drive solution (fast and high capacity) for my mid-range gaming computer. I want to use Storage Spaces to make it work but as I understand it Win10 doesn't have support in the GUI to do this. I have 4x 2TB WD blue drives, a 250GB m.2 NVMe drives, 2 SATA SSDs (one is the system disk, the other I bought to use for caching with my onboard RAID controller) and 6 total SATA ports on my motherboard. After seeing just how bad Intel Rapid Storage Technology can be I've decided to try Storage Spaces in Windows 10. 4 disks set up with parity is already performing better than the raid controller on my motherboard. But I still want to add the SSD as a cache for the RAID. According to what I'm reading this is not supported in the GUI (link below). I may be able to use powershell to do this, but the example uses equal quantities of HDDs and SSDs to make it work. Nothing as simple as "assign 1 SSD to RAID as cache". So, can this be done with 1 SSD and 4 HDDs. Maybe I should just copy the game I want to play onto the NVMe or just buy a new Drobo with thunderbolt and be done with it.
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what i am looking to do is run a 2x1TB sammy SSD(sata 3) and 1x2TB sammy m.2 as a raid 5 and do the same with 2x2TB ultrastar and 1x4TB ultrastar (all sata 3) but automate a move from hdd>>ssd during current use and when done with move back to HDD using windows 10 pro this is looking to be done on a ryzen 3700x x570 system is this possible to do or should i just stick with a single raid 5 on SSD and just keep O/S on the SSD's with just program hooks on ssd and main program on the HDD's just need some advice before spending money thanks in advance
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Hey Guys first time posting on the forums, didnt know where else to go, It apears one of my 2 drives currently shoved in my computer is on the verge of failing as it has started making a consistent buzzing noise so I need to sort out an emergency storage upgrade. untill then ive got my computer off, but i need it going again asap, it has been acting as my server that contains a lot of valuable data as well as my gaming machine. I needed some advice for my storage upgrade keep in mind I am reasonable price constricted. I was thinking of setting up some sort of RAID configuration so I dont have to deal with this kind of stress again. Probably something like RAID 5. If I were to go this route, is it better to go for buying a hardware raid card or software raid? if I start out with software can I upgrade to a hardware raid controller later, without wiping the drives, to get a performance benifit? Also is it better to go for a dedicated NAS box or a hard drive enclosure, or some other route that I cant think of? Any reccomendations on hardware for me to go for? Bonus question, in the future am I able to add drives to a raid 5 without wiping the drives. Thanks for all your help
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raid 5 Is it possible to reconstruct RAID configuration?
firefirefire posted a topic in Troubleshooting
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170N-WIFI BIOS Version: F22e (latest) RAID System: Intel RST Drives: (4) Intel 540s Series 2.5" 1TB SSD I was momentarily taken over by the big dumb and reset my BIOS settings while using a RAID 5 setup. This predictably wiped the RAID configuration on the disks and turned the RAID volume into Failed status. From the original array of 4 disks, 2 disks are now showing as non-RAID disks, while 2 disks stayed in the array. I know that normally a failure rate of 2 out 4 is a death sentence for RAID 5, but I believe in my case it's not as bad. My hypothesis is that only the RAID configuration got messed up in the 2 non-RAID disks. The question then becomes: Is the a way to manually recreate RAID configuration on the non-RAID disks so the BIOS recognizes them as member disks again? And if so, do I need to see a data recovery professional for this? I suppose there's always the option to try to copy everything out, but that data recovery process is expensive for a RAID setup so I'd explore this easier option first, if it is possible at all. -
Hey, I have dilemma: I want to upgrade my PC with SSD but in the same price I can buy: 3x Goodram IRDM MLC 240GB SATA ssd (IR-SSDPR-S25A-240) or 1x Goodram IRDM MLC 480 M.2. NVME (IRU-SSDPR-P34A-480-80A) What do You think about Raid 5 in case with 3 SSD's? Is it possible to have Raid of 3xSSD and 2xHDD still connected to Mobo. As i understand i will need to reinstall my Windows to make best performance or its not needed? configuration: Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (rev. 1.0) (Supports NVME, Raid 0, Raid 1, Raid 5, Raid 10) CPU: i7-4790k 4,8GHz Ram: HyperX DDR3 2400MHz 4x8GB GPU: Aourus GTX1080Ti HDD: 1x 1TB WD Blue, 1x 3TB WD Blue (Old Green) OS: Windows 10 x64
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So I'm wanting to build a NAS in the 15-20TB range. I'm hoping to use RAID 5, but I do a lot of video editing so I want to write speeds to be decent, (at least 100MBps). Does anyone have any recommendations for RAID cards that would be able to acheive this? Do things like the number of drives and how good the CPU is influence how fast writes are? Also, how important would it be to use NAS hard drives? Or could I save some money something cheaper?
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Hi all im planning to buy new gaming pc, but whats bother me is storage layout pc will be used only for gaming, so faster loading = better choise for me here are options im thinking about: 4x 2TB hdd in RAID 5 4x 2TB hdd in RAID 10 4x 500GB SSD in RAID 5 (probably overkill) 4x 500GB SSD in RAID 10 (probably overkill) 2x 500GB SSD in RAID 0 + 2TB HDD as everyday backup because i couldnt find any decent performance tests on 4ssd in raid, im asking here im more interested in performance than price so, feel free to share your opinion/experiences
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Hello, At home I have a 6TB WD red drive. I assume the performance is lower due to less cache and less RPM and therefore my question, is it possible to setup RAID 5 with the drive I have and two seagate ironwolf 6TB drives without loosing speed? (Maybe setting the WD drive as the parity drive)
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Hey guys! I was thinking about installing a RAID5 setup in my new PC that I'll build in a couple of months and it just popped up in my head if I could actually use StoreMI with my RAID setup. (3x3TB HDDs and a 256GB SSD for store MI) Thanks for any answers
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