RAID or nah?

[Commander_Dork]

I’m currently working on setting up a home diy NAS. It will be temporarily storing videos before I transfer them to my computer for working on. It was recommended that I use raid. Should I and if so, what mode? 

[Block0]

depends on how many drives and how you will use them. 

[Enigma147]

Depends on A) what type of raid and  b) if there's a reliable backup of  the video material. 

 

For example, if you have a permanent ZFS storage solution and you would like to also store the video  on a raid 1 or even on a raid 0 for more perfomance while accessing for editing, go ahead.  

 

On the other hand, i would not advice on using  raid 0 as only storage for video, even if it was just  temporary. 

[LIGISTX]

15 hours ago, Commander_Dork said:

I’m currently working on setting up a home diy NAS. It will be temporarily storing videos before I transfer them to my computer for working on. It was recommended that I use raid. Should I and if so, what mode? 

Why would you set up a NAS solely as an ingest station..? Just import the videos directly to your PC.

 

If you need storage for finished work, that makes a lot more sense. 
 

More information about how you want to use this system would be more helpful. 

[wseaton]

I have a customer that has a Synology that's 6 years old that's tossed 3 drives in that time. They've got more reliable between fails mind you, but they would be hurting without RAID 1.

 

 

[Commander_Dork]

On 4/6/2023 at 11:45 AM, LIGISTX said:

Why would you set up a NAS solely as an ingest station..? Just import the videos directly to your PC.

 

If you need storage for finished work, that makes a lot more sense. 
 

More information about how you want to use this system would be more helpful. 

It’s because I’m working for someone else who is constantly traveling and I was planning on building a data server for them so that my computer doesn’t always have to be on.

[denishay]

The important bit for you is to find out why you would want RAID:

 

• for performance?

• for redundancy/data resilience?

 

If the former, then you need to have enough similar sized disks -AND SPARES- (because the day you need to replace one, it might not be available}

If the later, you can do that, even with completely different disk sizes and types (for ex. with UNRAID, but there are other solutions around)

[LIGISTX]

15 hours ago, Commander_Dork said:

It’s because I’m working for someone else who is constantly traveling and I was planning on building a data server for them so that my computer doesn’t always have to be on.

So they would upload data to the server for you to then edit?