Raid 1 vs Raid 5 help

[GirlFromYonder]

Hai people. So I intend to build a ryzen pc soon and also buy a bunch of hdds to storage some games and family photos and archives. So which would be better: raid 5 or raid 1

[Crunchy Dragon]

I think it depends on how many drives you have. I think Raid 5 is better for more drives, like 3+ and Raid 1 is better for like 2 lol. Not entirely sure though, although I'd guess Raid 5 would be better...

 

EDIT: It's also usually better for the budget to buy one huge drive instead of multiple smaller drives that add up to the same amount of storage.

[GirlFromYonder]

3 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I think it depends on how many drives you have. I think Raid 5 is better for more drives, like 3+ and Raid 1 is better for like 2 lol. Not entirely sure though, although I'd guess Raid 5 would be better...

 

EDIT: It's also usually better for the budget to buy one huge drive instead of multiple smaller drives that add up to the same amount of storage.

Going for gb/price

[Crunchy Dragon]

11 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

Going for gb/price

Yeah, pretty sure one big drive is better

[GirlFromYonder]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Yeah, pretty sure one big drive is better

Multi 4tb is better

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, DeezNoNos said:

Multi 4tb is better

Oh, I hadn't considered that lol. It's getting to be that point in the day where my brain starts to go downhill haha

[RedSector]

Raid 1 Minimum 2 disks.
Good performance ( no striping. no parity ).
Excellent redundancy ( as blocks are mirrored ).

 

 

Raid 5 Minimum 3 disks.
Good performance ( as blocks are striped ).
Good redundancy ( distributed parity ).
Best cost effective option providing both performance and redundancy. Use this for DB that is heavily read oriented. Write operations will be slow.

 

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/raid-levels-tutorial  (this one has pretty pictures)

 

http://au.pcmag.com/storage-devices-reviews/8620/feature/raid-levels-explained

 

There are other choices besides RAID for storage.  Might be worth using cloud services or external usb hard drive backup.  Also consider if you never want to loose the data and fire happens or something bad at the facility. If you cant afford loose the data at all then cloud becomes a good choice.

 

Hope you find this of help OP.

 

[GirlFromYonder]

Yeah all my raid drives will be encrypted and uploaded onto Google drive or something