raid conf for a plex server??

[TheRealDieselD]

I have an HP Proliant 380 G6. It has 8, 2.5" drive bays and I need at least 7TB (10 would be the perfect sweet spot) of storage with some kind of RAID for protection, also keep in mind 1 or 2 bays need to be filled with the OS, which is currently on a 15k drive, though I have another I would like to use in RAID 1. What is the cheapest way I can achieve this? If the 2.5" drives are limiting, what are my best NAS options?

 

I know a picture has no factor on the choices but just wanted to show off what I got going so far!

 

 

[NelizMastr]

well, if you want the most capacity out of those 6 remaining drives, you'll need to go RAID5. Seagate sells 2-5TB 2,5" SATA drives, so you could use a few of them. The 5TB ones are about $200 each, 2TB is about $100. 

 

With 2TB drives in RAID5, you'd get 12TB-2TB for parity=10TB of usable space. This'd cost roughly $500. That's with consumer drives though.

[TheRealDieselD]

11 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

well, if you want the most capacity out of those 6 remaining drives, you'll need to go RAID5. Seagate sells 2-5TB 2,5" SATA drives, so you could use a few of them. The 5TB ones are about $200 each, 2TB is about $100. 

 

With 2TB drives in RAID5, you'd get 12TB-2TB for parity=10TB of usable space. This'd cost roughly $500.

Are the 2TB drives you're referring to commercial/NAS rated drives? I was looking at these 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FireCuda-Gaming-2-5-Inch-ST2000LX001/dp/B01M1NHCZT/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1510240392&sr=8-3&keywords=2tb+2.5&dpID=51VO7uARd5L&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

 

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000LM015/dp/B01LX13P71/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1510240392&sr=8-2&keywords=2tb+2.5&dpID=51wh6SybvWL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

[NelizMastr]

2 minutes ago, TheRealDieselD said:

Are the 2TB drives you're referring to commercial/NAS rated drives? I was looking at these 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FireCuda-Gaming-2-5-Inch-ST2000LX001/dp/B01M1NHCZT/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1510240392&sr=8-3&keywords=2tb+2.5&dpID=51VO7uARd5L&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

 

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000LM015/dp/B01LX13P71/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1510240392&sr=8-2&keywords=2tb+2.5&dpID=51wh6SybvWL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

Yup, those are the ones, the barracudas. They're consumer grade unfortunately. SAS 2,5" high capacity or enterprise/NAS grade drives are 3-4 times as expensive.

You might want to use one of the drives as a hot spare (RAID 5E) so you can have 2 drive failures before all data is lost. You'll go to 8TB of usable space.

[Catsrules]

Looks like the 4TB are the sweet spot on price.

I would go with the 4 4TB drives instead of 7 2TB.

If I did my math right You could do a Raid 10 and get 8TB of usable space or just do a RAID 5 and get 12TB. (raid 10 is the safest and will probably be the fastest.)

This will cost $70 less then 7 2TB and give your the same or more storage and leave you will spare bays for future additions.

You also have less risk of a drive failure because you have 3 less drives in your setup.

 

[TheRealDieselD]

48 minutes ago, Catsrules said:

Looks like the 4TB are the sweet spot on price.

If would go with the 4 4TB drives instead of 7 2TB.

If I did my math right You could do a Raid 10 and get 8TB of usable space or just do a RAID 5 and get 12TB. (raid 10 is the safest and will probably be the fastest.)

This will cost $70 less then 7 2TB and give your the same or more storage and leave you will spare bays for future additions.

You also have less risk of a drive failure because you have 3 less drives in your setup.

 

What brand would you recommend for 4tb drives? I dont wanna get crucified by my fellow techies for having "shit drives" as i hear in our office every day for other people's downfalls lol

[Catsrules]

6 minutes ago, TheRealDieselD said:

What brand would you recommend for 4tb drives? I dont wanna get crucified by my fellow techies for having "shit drives" as i hear in our office every day for other people's downfalls lol

That I don't feel comfortable giving you an answer, I haven't been looking at 2.5" drives in along time. I guess you could ask the fellow techies in your office

In my previous post I was just looking at the suggested barracuda drives, and Amazon also had other drive sizes for example 4TB Barracuda.

However looking at it again. it looks likes Amazon is messed up, I was looking at $129.99 not 140. But it is still a better deal to go with the 4TB. Although now it is only $30 difference.

[Catsrules]

Oh they fixed it, now it is $140 on both places.

They must have just raised the price, I swear it was 129 when I looked at it 30 minutes ago. Crazy

[TheRealDieselD]

3 hours ago, Catsrules said:

Oh they fixed it, now it is $140 on both places.

They must have just raised the price, I swear it was 129 when I looked at it 30 minutes ago. Crazy

If I read this 3 hours earlier, I would have gotten that steal real quick lol! maybe next time. Hopefully this weekend or next week when I cash out on a couple ether, ill get the parts and let you guys know my progress. i appreciate everyone's help!