RAID HELP

[james844]

Hi Guys 

Thanks for all your help so far my system is finaly getting therer after got my graphics card picked and ordered (1060 for £100 used looks legit but that's what PayPal is for) 

 

I have a lot of space in my case and a couple of spair pcie ports free and i feel a need to fill the space (that and the boot drive is only a 128gb ssd)  I'm thinking RAID 

Would someone be able to link me some video that are a bit more than just how it works 

 

And 

 

If i use raid 5 cand i use 2 1tb hdds and one 2tb  of some ourher combernation of the primary totaling the secondary not looked at drive prices in years  

 

And 

Is a used ssd something i should avoid? 

 

The budget is £80

[ELSknutson]

 

[BrinkGG]

5 minutes ago, james844 said:

Hi Guys 

Thanks for all your help so far my system is finaly getting therer after got my graphics card picked and ordered (1060 for £100 used looks legit but that's what PayPal is for) 

 

I have a lot of space in my case and a couple of spair pcie ports free and i feel a need to fill the space (that and the boot drive is only a 128gb ssd)  I'm thinking RAID 

Would someone be able to link me some video that are a bit more than just how it works 

 

And 

 

If i use raid 5 cand i use 2 1tb hdds and one 2tb  of some ourher combernation of the primary totaling the secondary not looked at drive prices in years  

 

And 

Is a used ssd something i should avoid? 

 

The budget is £80

I usually don't recommend raid. backing up your data regularly removes the need for it. 

But if you want to run raid, you should really run it with identical disks. IE: 3x 1TB drives, 2x 2TB drives, 4x 2TB drives, etc. 

And I would avoid used SSDs unless you have a way to see the write count and how much warranty it has left. 

[james844]

3 minutes ago, Brink2Three said:

I usually don't recommend raid. backing up your data regularly removes the need for it. 

But if you want to run raid, you should really run it with identical disks. IE: 3x 1TB drives, 2x 2TB drives, 4x 2TB drives, etc. 

And I would avoid used SSDs unless you have a way to see the write count and how much warranty it has left. 

Thanks i'm just wainng a challenge that results is faster data RAID 0 and cloud