Raid or something else? Help

[OhNoItsApollo]

I am currently running my PC with a 500gb samsung boot drive (windows), 128gb SPCC boot drive (ubuntu). And 3 HHDS. 1tb, 4tb, 5tb that I have collected over the years. I am eventually looking to build a NAS but in the meantime I use my HDDS for such. I am looking at my best options for a redundant storage setup potentially? (for the meantime). Is it at all possible to use the 1 and 4tb drive in unison with the 5tb as a redundant?

What other setups could I possibly configure for now?

 

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

With software raid yes.

With hardware raid also yes, but you need a expensive raid card.

 

You would run RAID0 on the 1TB and 4TB, and then RAID1 them with the 5TB

[OhNoItsApollo]

12 minutes ago, Andrew 1337 said:

With software raid yes.

With hardware raid also yes, but you need a expensive raid card.

 

You would run RAID0 on the 1TB and 4TB, and then RAID1 them with the 5TB

Is it possible to do this in Asus Bios for raid? Complete noob at this

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-set-up-raid-windows-10,36783.html

 

This is a pretty decent tutorial to get you started, keep in mind these drives are going to be formatted from this procedure.

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

Just now, OhNoItsApollo said:

Is it possible to do this in Asus Bios for raid? Complete noob at this

It depends on the SATA controller, I would suggest sticking with software for now; it will be sufficient for temporary.

[OhNoItsApollo]

Just now, Andrew 1337 said:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-set-up-raid-windows-10,36783.html

 

This is a pretty decent tutorial to get you started, keep in mind these drives are going to be formatted from this procedure.

Yes I know that. Awesome thanks! I was actually working on a backup of my plex server. Was transferring it to and External HDD. Busy doing homework, click things and didnt read. Deleted all 3.5 tb on accident. I was actually copying it over to set this up in the first place. I proved I needed it to myself in the process

[OhNoItsApollo]

Just now, Andrew 1337 said:

It depends on the SATA controller, I would suggest sticking with software for now; it will be sufficient for temporary.

So stick to software instead of using the asus bios hardware? Right

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

Just now, OhNoItsApollo said:

So stick to software instead of using the asus bios hardware? Right

If you want, for beginners software is more forgiving.

[WWicket]

RAID across drives this mixed is going to have bad trade-offs no matter how you do it. 

Better off not. 

Just set up automatic backups of the 1TB+4TB to the 5TB. 

If you really need to, do a software raid 1 of the 4TB and 5TB drive and you will end up with 4TB w/ redundancy (+ the 1TB non-redundant drive).

Doing a RAID 0 of the 1TB+4TB and then Raid 1 of the RAID 0 and 5TB increases the likelihood of a drive failure and the complexity of the array significantly just to get 25% more redundant capacity (but same total capacity).

[Sorenson]

I think you should first ask your self is raiding two or possibly 3 hdd’s worth the trade off. Even in raid, hdds are going to be slow, if you want redundant storage + more storage, buy a larger cheap SSD and a large HDD.