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Hey guys I am about to buy a server and was wondering if 3 Seagate 2 TB drives at 7200RPM each and a 3TB Seagate drive at 7200RPM and a 500GB WD black drive in a raid would be a good idea for NAS storage in Raid 10? Is that possible? And is there another raid other than raid 0 that I could get more performance?

Pls Follow your own posts!      Chief Engineer for my School Studio, Own my own Home Studio also. I also do requests for Remixing songs too :D Storage Server: Mobo: Supermicro X8SIA-F Case: Some Supermicro 1U case Drives: 3x 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM drives, 1x 3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM CPU: Intel Xeon X3430 2.4GHz Ram: 2x Kingston ECC 2GB sticks

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Hey guys I am about to buy a server and was wondering if 3 Seagate 2 TB drives at 7200RPM each and a 3TB Seagate drive at 7200RPM and a 500GB WD black drive in a raid would be a good idea for NAS storage in Raid 10? Is that possible? And is there another raid other than raid 0 that I could get more performance?

 

No idea about the Seagates, but the WD Black is not a good drive for RAID. Also, in RAID 10, you should keep all of the drives the same size if you can. I wouldn't say it's a good idea to RAID those drives together. You could try using RAID 5 or 6 for the Seagate Drives though.

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For raid you normally want to use identical drives. If you raid drives that are different sizes you will only be able to use the size of the smallest drive. There are some solutions that will let you make a pool of drives of different sizes like window's storage spaces, but these solutions are normally much slower. I suggest getting a few more 2TB drives and use the other drives as a backup.

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For raid you normally want to use identical drives. If you raid drives that are different sizes you will only be able to use the size of the smallest drive. There are some solutions that will let you make a pool of drives of different sizes like window's storage spaces, but these solutions are normally much slower. I suggest getting a few more 2TB drives and use the other drives as a backup.

I would grab more drives but these are all I can fit in the server it is a 1U server with 4 drive bays and I shoved one inside

Pls Follow your own posts!      Chief Engineer for my School Studio, Own my own Home Studio also. I also do requests for Remixing songs too :D Storage Server: Mobo: Supermicro X8SIA-F Case: Some Supermicro 1U case Drives: 3x 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM drives, 1x 3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM CPU: Intel Xeon X3430 2.4GHz Ram: 2x Kingston ECC 2GB sticks

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