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Help Choosing Which Software RAID

Altec
By Altec
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I'm currently trying to deiced which Software based RAID solution is going to be the best for me.

I have the following equipment and hard drives;

-ASRock B75M mATX

-60GB 520 Intel SSD [OS Drive]

-Fractal Design R3

-1x 4TB Seagate 7200

-2x 3TB Seagate 7200

-2x 3TB WD Green

-2x 3TB Toshiba 7200

-4x 2TB WD Green [Planning to use these as backup drives for the array and taking them to work as offsite]

I currently have 8.5TB of data and would like to have room for expansion. The B75M has 8x SATA ports and I will use 1x for the OS on the SSD and want 1x spare port to connect the 2TB WD Greens for backup. So have up to 6 SATA ports spare.

I'm looking for a Software RAID that is;

-More reliable than fast. I'm happy to sacrifice reliability for speed.

-Not command line based.

-Ability for future expansion via adding disks as well as removing/swapping drives.

-Reasonably established, nothing brand new that is unproven.

-Cheap/Free

So what Software based RAID would people recommend?

Cheers!

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What OS are you using? In Win7 Pro you can create a spanned array, in Win8 Pro you can use Storage Spaces...

Software based though - you pretty much have to sacrifice so much - even reliability, etc. Within Windows, if your OS Blue screens and you can loose it all... Honestly, if you really need the data, look at a hardware raid card

Some other possibilities - something like unRaid or FreeNAS.

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