HDD or NVME

tjrose91 · July 15, 2022

i am needing to upgrade my storage system on main rig or in general

right now i have 3x10 tb HDD from Seagate one of the drives is the only one under data recovery, main system has a 2x1tb SATA in raid 0 for steam games only as they auto back up to the cloud so if one drive fails im not worried about data loss for a steam game

main thing should i go for the same route as before a raid 5 setup and yes I'm a home user not familiar with any other file system like ZFS or anything else on LTT channel but raid 5 is fine for home users,

or obtain two 8tb NVME and set it up in raid 1 or mirror mode i get the 1 and 0s messed up without googling, HDD would be cheaper and SMART on my drives still give a pass but Intel RAID fails to initialize or fails the raid when SMART says they are fine so right now I'm imaging the drive on a regular basis using AOMEI program

so one last question HDD or NVME for archival storage, failure rate, etc i dont access my drives that often and later will upload crystaldiskinfo so people know how often i use the drive regularly, might try and use the old 10tb drives in another system in a raid 1 or 5 to make a back up of a back up

wseaton · July 15, 2022

Personally I would stop running RAID for NVMe or even SATA based SSD unless you simply need the large volumes.

Set your working PC up with as simple a drive config as possible. I can't stress this enough. Keep it simple. If you can afford large NVMe - get them. No need to RAID them.

Use the 10TB spinners as a NAS / DAS backup in any config you want. Basically you have a two tier backup like we do in corporate and leveraging the best use of your money and gear.

tjrose91 · July 15, 2022

52 minutes ago, wseaton said:

Personally I would stop running RAID for NVMe or even SATA based SSD unless you simply need the large volumes.

Set your working PC up with as simple a drive config as possible. I can't stress this enough. Keep it simple. If you can afford large NVMe - get them. No need to RAID them.

Use the 10TB spinners as a NAS / DAS backup in any config you want. Basically you have a two tier backup like we do in corporate and leveraging the best use of your money and gear.

i basically have 7+ tb of storage already I'm in the red with an 8tb drive on one my systems so i would have to go the 10tb route and i rip alot of DVDs , i have a spare m.2 slot on my 10700k and if im getting rid of HDD i can affortd to lose 2 sata lanes,