What RAID type do you use?

[officiallyasimulator]

Hey guys, i was wondering, what raid type do you use in your NAS/server. and what drives do you use in said NAS/server.

[EcoBoost]

None cause I can't afford a NAS/Server

 

Some old 250GB external HDD plugged into the router

[XTankSlayerX]

None, Cause all my hard drivers are from laptops, those DVR's telcos give you and old PC's

[WinNut]

None, since I don't have any form of network storage.

[QueenDemetria]

Raid 1 at the moment, because of reliability and read speeds, but when I get 4 drives I'm going to upgrade to Raid 5.

[A.D.A.M]

Dont use RAID. No NAS

[faftek]

I currently don't use RAID as my NAS only has one HDD, however I do use RAID 0 on my SSD's. I would suggest using raid 5 or 6 depending on the data and how sensitive it is, if this is EXTREME MOST IMPORTANT DATA EVER than raid 1 is the best bet.

[Grrizz]

IMO if you don't need super speeds JBOD + parity is the best option for home use unless you want to drop the cash on the extra drives for RAID 1 or 6. The problem with stripped RAID arrays with only a single parity drive is when a drive fails the rebuild is likely to derp out any other drives that are near failure causing complete loss of data (coming from a ex RAID 5 user ).

Try to get drives from different batches too.

[algoat]

freeNAS (zfs1) for one server, flexRAID for the other. It's in my sig.

[EmeraldFlame]

RAID 5 - 4x 3TB WD Red 
Probably within the next year or so I will up it to a RAID 6 with 8x 3TB WD Red

[Darkstar101]

RAID 0 on my 2 bays NAS, but will use RAID 5 with a future 4 bays NAS.

[Pomfinator]

I use RaidZ2 with 4 3TB WD Reds

[Captain_WD]

Hey guys, i was wondering, what raid type do you use in your NAS/server. and what drives do you use in said NAS/server.

 

 

Depending on needs, I've switched between RAID0 and RAID1. Personally, I think the sweet spot would would be the balance between the price of building the RAID, the redundancy it provides and the speed that the user needs. My personal choice would be 5 drives in RAID6. This  way one would have the security of sustaining not one but two drive failures and still have three more drive to do striping and have a significant speed boost.

 

Concerning the drives, I would say NAS-designed drives are always the better choice for the additional features that they have in their design and firmware. Those features enable them to behave much more stable in a RAID environment and perform great while communicating with the other drives and the whole device. It is highly recommended that drives of the same manufacturer and model are used when building a RAID or NAS device. On the other hand, many people use regular drives and still report good results.

 

Captain_WD.