raid help

[morpheus18]

hi I'm running out of storage and cant really afford to fork out for new hard drives I have 3 hard drives all different sizes and a friend of mine said I should use them in raid 0  would this work and can someone tell me how I could do it I have never used raid before 

[79wjd]

You can RAID 0 them, but do know that if any one of them dies then all data will be lost. Alternatively you can just use the three drives just not in RAID, then you don't have to worry about one failure taking out the data on all three.

[MedievalMatt]

3 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

You can RAID 0 them, but do know that if any one of them dies then all data will be lost. Alternatively you can just use the three drives just not in RAID, then you don't have to worry about one failure taking out the data on all three.

 

12 minutes ago, morpheus18 said:

hi I'm running out of storage and cant really afford to fork out for new hard drives I have 3 hard drives all different sizes and a friend of mine said I should use them in raid 0  would this work and can someone tell me how I could do it I have never used raid before 

never underestimate the power of JBOD.

 

unless you REALLY dont give 2 shits about your data.... you shouldnt use RAID0.

 

good examples of good RAID0 uses would be like a Steam game library, or a drive you need a lot of speed from like for video editing.

 

Otherwise the redundancy of RAID 1, or 5, or 6, or 10, or 15, etc.  is used in greater abundance.

 

but these require extra drives for (parity) so you lose some space overall.

[morpheus18]

I did not want to have it across separate drives I already have my files split across 4 drives  it was mainly for gaming wich I should have mentioned  and anything I want keeping is on a backup drive that is only connected when I backup important files 

[Canada EH]

I dont know if this will help you or if this is way out in left field, but I automatically save a file on my desktop to a paid cloud, but you could use a free cloud, not sure how much space you require, but isnt 1TB free? I dont know. Now its not instant like raid would be, I just set a time during the late night hours.

 

A good question would be, how much hard drive space do you require?

[MedievalMatt]

1 minute ago, Canada EH said:

I dont know if this will help you or if this is way out in left field, but I automatically save a file on my desktop to a paid cloud, but you could use a free cloud, not sure how much space you require, but isnt 1TB free? I dont know.

 

5 minutes ago, morpheus18 said:

I did not want to have it across separate drives I already have my files split across 4 drives  it was mainly for gaming wich I should have mentioned  and anything I want keeping is on a backup drive that is only connected when I backup important files 

I have backblaze for my server (12TB Total backup size) and its only like $10/Mo.

 

Why is it that you want one "logical" drive.  Why does the fact that they are split up as multiple physical discs bother you?

 

 

I could understand if you have 6 mutli TB drives like i do (4* 3TB and 1* 10TB in my server, and 1* 3TB and 1* 500GB in my main rig) that that might get out of hand quick.  Which is why my server runs the 4 3TB drives in RAID 5.  the 10TB drive is my steam library and i access it via network on my main rig (i dont store my games locally anymore)