Mass storage drives in RAID?

[Wadeford]

Hi everyone, 

 

This is my first post to the forum, so be gentle

 

I'm currently building my very first system, and am at the stage where I'm thinking about storage. I'm using an SSD as my boot drive, and I'll go with some sort of HDD combination for all my media, etc. 

 

The question I have is, considering that (I Guess) super fast access isn't as necessary when you're accessing your movies and music, does it make sense to put big storage drives in something like RAID 0? RAID 1 sorta makes sense from the point of view of backup and stuff, but should you just stick with two independent drives (ie 2x2TB) or put them in RAID 0 for faster performance? 

 

Hope that makes sense. Thanks everyone! 

 

Wade

[shadowbyte]

tbh, I wouldn't raid two drives that you're using for media unless its RAID 10 or something.

 

[Enderman]

WELCOME!

 

dont do raid, its a waste of time and usually causes more issues than it solves, especially if youre using software raid on a consumer motherboard

 

instead just get a good reliable HDD and a separate HDD or external drive for periodic backups

and no, you dont need to raid 0 for extra performance, if youre a content creator and need that speed then save up for a large SSD, otherwise a single HDD is fast enough

[Wadeford]

Awesome, that's sort of what I thought, but I wasn't totally sure, so it's good to hear your advice. Thanks guys

[manikyath]

if speed isnt an issue raid 0 is out the window, it is absolutely useless for storage.

 

if you need more than 1 drive worth of space, either raid 10 (which'll cost you 4 drives for the capacity of 2)

or honestly, just JBOD it. (just a bunch of drives, basicly once the first one is full it carries on writing on the second one)

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

instead just get a good reliable HDD and a separate HDD or external drive for periodic backups

and no, you dont need to raid 0 for extra performance, if youre a content creator and need that speed then save up for a large SSD, otherwise a single HDD is fast enough

besides, a decent 7200rpm hard drive can cap out gigabit lan quite easily as long as you're not doing too much of randoms. (talking 4kB files here)

[Redicat]

I dropped a Hard Drive while traveling a garbage reseller back to home and putted them in RAID 0, STILL NO SMART errors  

 

Wouldnt do a RAID 0 only for games 'n stuff/unimportant files

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Redicat said:

I dropped a Hard Drive while traveling a garbage reseller back to home and putted them in RAID 0, STILL NO SMART errors  

 

Wouldnt do a RAID 0 only for games 'n stuff/unimportant files

thats kinda the idea of raid zero, you multiply speed (and capacity) by the number of drives you have, you just also multiply failure chance by the number of drives, and once one disk derps you lose everything.