Jump to content

RAID 5 with 3 drives worth it?

Lord Nicoll
By Lord Nicoll
in Storage Devices
 Share
Posted

I've usually just used RAID 10 for my drives, but I have three drives and thought about a RAID 5 array, but usually I have used 4 or 5 drives for those, I have no experience with 3 drive arrays, would it be worth it even? I know I'd have more space than a RAID 1 array, since I'd only have either 1/3 the room or 1/2 the room with s spare drive. 

Yours faithfully

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

Not worth it IMO. For RAID 5, I'd start with a minimum of 4 drives. At 3 drives you're not really getting the full benefits of RAID 5 and if you lose a drive and need to rebuild, you'll be getting the downsides of RAID 5 as well. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

My storage server started with 3 drives in raid 5.  it worked fine.  It's now up to 24 drives in raid 60 (2 raid 6 partitions raid 0'd together for 4 drives of redundancy) along with 2 hotspares.

Workstation:  14700nonK || Asus Z790 ProArt Creator || MSI Gaming Trio 4090 Shunt || Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB @ 5600 || Corsair AX1600i@240V || whole-house loop.

LANRig/GuestGamingBox: 13700K @ Stock || MSI Z690 DDR4 || ASUS TUF 3090 650W shunt || Corsair SF600 || CPU+GPU watercooled 280 rad pull only || whole-house loop.

Server Router (Untangle): 13600k @ Stock || ASRock Z690 ITX || All 10Gbe || 2x8GB 3200 || PicoPSU 150W 24pin + AX1200i on CPU|| whole-house loop

Server Compute/Storage: 10850K @ 5.1Ghz || Gigabyte Z490 Ultra || EVGA FTW3 3090 1000W || LSI 9280i-24 port || 4TB Samsung 860 Evo, 5x10TB Seagate Enterprise Raid 6, 4x8TB Seagate Archive Backup ||  whole-house loop.

Laptop: HP Elitebook 840 G8 (Intel 1185G7) + 3060 RTX Thunderbolt Dock, Razer Blade Stealth 13" 2017 (Intel 8550U)

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author
20 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What are you using the storage for?

 

Its not a bad solution.

It's for VMware datastore, I ended up using the RAID 5 and it works fine, more room than my old RAID 1 and a little bit faster. 

20 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

My storage server started with 3 drives in raid 5.  it worked fine.  It's now up to 24 drives in raid 60 (2 raid 6 partitions raid 0'd together for 4 drives of redundancy) along with 2 hotspares.

I prefer the RAID 50 mirrored on another RAID 50 because I hate my drives and fuck density. Reading speed isn't need, but bulkish storage is. My Minecraft server is starting to use a lot more storage than I thought it would from plugins and exploration, so it was eating up the room on my last server. 

Yours faithfully

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing Storage Devices

×