How to set up this workstation?

tsegreto · April 28, 2018

I am setting up a workstation for my friend. It is a Xeon E5 2620v4 with 32GB of RAM (ECC) - he owns a design studio with a lot of hardware doing engraving, printing, etc. he wants to run a RAID array in his computer. RAID 6 with 5 hard drives of 4TB each. He wants his employees to be able to access this. What is the best way to do this? How do you set up a RAID6 array under Windows 10? Or should it be dual booted or something like that? Thanks.

Electronics Wizardy · April 28, 2018

So your just running windows 10?

Id use storage spaces mirror.

Yea its not raid 6, but raid 10/mirror is a good amount faster and you don't loose much extra space(2.5 vs 3 drives of capicity. And its easier to expand.

Stay away from the motherboard raid, its normally pretty baid.

Pixel5 · April 28, 2018

as he wants others to access this data as well the best way is probably to simply purchase a NAS from Synology or Qnap and set it up as network shares.

this is a good start to have the data in a central place but dont forget to make backups possibly offsite