Using Consumer Drives Instead of NAS Ones?
7 hours ago, GeekaWhat said:Wow, that is a great help! Because my array will be in my PC (i'm a one man youtuber) and the X99 mobo I am going to get will support RAID 10 just fine, would you still recommend a RAID card, or could I get a card later on to save money?
I would use the onboard RAID. A proper RAID card (With the battery backup) isn't cheap / is too overkill for your use. They run in the $500-700 range as well.
RAID 10 isn't calculation heavy like RAID6, so the onboard RAID is fine.
Do note that the speed of the array will drop as you fill it up a lot (like 20% free space...It's just the nature of hard drives).
Have you considered the 4TB drives though? They still have the best GB per dollar ratio. The 4TB and capacity drives are faster. You might get slightly slower results with the 2TB ones (Not by much though...probably 5-10MB/s less).
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