Best Home Server Storage Solution ( with redundancy )

[Cyressvirus]

Hi guys,

I often receive error message from my raid controller ( IRST ) that say "Non-Member Disk" Error. Major issue are : third time receiving this error , running in raid 10 so i have to delete the entire raid and then recreate it , and finally as the amount of data increase it begin to be hard to backup those somewhere else ( was 4x4tb at first but now now its 6x8tb )

So the question here is : Is it the integrated Raid Controller fault , will a dedicated raid card work better ( less bug ) or do Software Raid are better ???

brief server spec :

Asus maximus 8 extreme
i7-6700k
64gb ram ddr4 3000mhz
6x WD 8TB ( 4 blue and 2 black ) in raid 10
240gb ssd as boot
dvd drive

thank you

 

P.S. i know Raid arent design as backup solution but when u do need approx 50TB for ur data and backup $$$ begin to matter too

[Windows7ge]

Use case really determines which is better. For active or general data storage software RAID works quite well. I would recommend ZFS. It's not a performance oriented file system as it sacrifices some of it for better resiliency. As oppose to some other file systems ZFS does a lot more to maintain the integrity of the data giving you plenty of warning about disk errors prior to drive failure. It also does active scrubbing to correct errors.

[Helly]

If you don't want to change the drives, go with a software solution. A hardware raid card will eventually kick out a drive that doesn't respond in-time. NAS drives have a function called TLER for this. All your drives lack this function so the array will eventually fail on a hardware raid card (i speak from experience, i once had 3 WD blacks in an array. It failed after a few months).

 

[Cyressvirus]

how do they manage data server in buisness solution , i mean most data center NEED to use Raid at some point. At my point i dont care about paying to change the hardware cuz i plan to anyway so if u tell me that a buisness grade RAID controller will work better / be more reliable. i will begin to look for 1, if u tell me that NAS Enclosure are better , ( obviously with WD Red disk ). I just want something that is reliable and provide a bit of redundancy like RAID 01 / 6 / 10 

 

Btw  WD Black use TLER  but not the blue whats strange is thats always my 2 WD black that get kick out of the the raid array

[dalekphalm]

8 hours ago, Cyressvirus said:

how do they manage data server in buisness solution , i mean most data center NEED to use Raid at some point. At my point i dont care about paying to change the hardware cuz i plan to anyway so if u tell me that a buisness grade RAID controller will work better / be more reliable. i will begin to look for 1, if u tell me that NAS Enclosure are better , ( obviously with WD Red disk ). I just want something that is reliable and provide a bit of redundancy like RAID 01 / 6 / 10 

 

Btw  WD Black use TLER  but not the blue whats strange is thats always my 2 WD black that get kick out of the the raid array

With six disks, I wouldn't use RAID10 - at that point, I'd switch to RAID 5 or 6 (depending on desired fault tolerance vs required Write speeds).

 

Also I'd definitely get a hardware RAID card. You can find excellent deals on used enterprise RAID cards on eBay - look for something like an LSI branded RAID card (or a Dell or IBM branded one - which are LSI hardware). Example: LSI 9266-8i - note, with a SAS RAID Card, you'll need proper SAS to Sata breakout cables too - you can get these on NewEgg or eBay or other places.

 

Feel free to run hardware by us and we'll let you know if they're good options.

[Windows7ge]

11 hours ago, Cyressvirus said:

how do they manage data server in buisness solution , i mean most data center NEED to use Raid at some point.

Both hardware RAID & software RAID are utilized in the enterprise space. Use case determines which an establishment goes with. Sometimes it's even a combination of the two for some SAN based networks.

[Cyressvirus]

im not really use to massive storage like this but i dont get it "whats the point of both software and hardware raid and how and let me give u some more info on what i store on this server. Maybe u can help me figure out the best solution

 

- music library ( around 650k song )

- game library for 3PC  ( they all have nvme ssd only ) so they store stuff elsewhere

- some doc ( job stuff )

- and ripped and transcoded my entire DVD / Bluray collection ( around 2k )

 

was bored to search for a movie in a freakin room where was only dvd in shelf