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Raid 1 vs. Raid 5

PCMags definition, basically what I've gone off of for years since it's not just a PCMag thing

(Redundant Array of Independent Disks Mode 1) A popular disk subsystem that increases safety by writing the same data on two drives. Called "mirroring," RAID 1 does not increase performance. However, if one drive fails, the second drive is used, and the failed drive is manually replaced. After replacement, the RAID controller duplicates the contents of the working drive onto the new one.

While I think RAID1 is still an easy way to maintain your data if your HD fails it seems I guess dated from listening to you guys if you have a cloud based backup solution. Very recently I had a job where I had quite a bit of sales data on my computer I'm not so sure I'd want that being accessible to another company though.

Now I'm not sure maybe just say the heck with raid get a single 3-4GB and roll the dice.
 
You started the thread by asking what other people do for their systems.

Are you looking for advice for your usage case?

If so, back up and tell us about your usage, budget, etc, and we can recommend something for you.
 
oh yes, back to the orig question :)

If you need to be operational, doing raid1 for atleast your os, and maybe your more critical documents folder, would be a good idea.

If you can handle a few days of downtime (or a single day, if you have the time then, and good backups that restore easily), while you rebuild raid1 wouldn't be needed.

Either way, I would use a larger drive, be it usb, network, another system, that I would do backups to.

Then, on top of that, if you want, a cloud backup.
 
kumquat said:
You started the thread by asking what other people do for their systems.

Are you looking for advice for your usage case?

If so, back up and tell us about your usage, budget, etc, and we can recommend something for you.
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No just letting people know that I learned something.

Although I would not mind hard drive recommendations for a media server 3-4TB. Likely going to pick it up from Microcenter or off of Amazon definitely not going to be buying a WD black or anything. http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?N=4294945772+128&NTX=&NTT=&NTK=all&page=1&sortby=pricelow
 
SpongeBob said:
PCMags definition, basically what I've gone off of for years since it's not just a PCMag thing

(Redundant Array of Independent Disks Mode 1) A popular disk subsystem that increases safety by writing the same data on two drives. Called "mirroring," RAID 1 does not increase performance.
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They are not correct about performance as discussed earlier in this thread. Yes even PCMag publishes incorrect information.

Although I would not mind hard drive recommendations for a media server 3-4TB.
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A single 4TB HGST Coolspin internal + $149 at B&H + a 4 or 5TB external as a backup. Get the external on sale for $120 or less.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/835055-REG/Hitachi_0S03359_4TB_Internal_Hard_Drive.html

Make a backup of your internal data 1 time a week. Disconnect the power to the external when you are not doing a backup. If this was not just media ( more important data) I would say get a second external from a different brand and alternate drives each week keeping the other drive off site.
 
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SpongeBob said:
No just letting people know that I learned something.

Although I would not mind hard drive recommendations for a media server 3-4TB. Likely going to pick it up from Microcenter or off of Amazon definitely not going to be buying a WD black or anything. http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?N=4294945772+128&NTX=&NTT=&NTK=all&page=1&sortby=pricelow
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Any 3-4 TB hard drive will do. If being down for a day or two would really inconvenience you, then do a pair of them in a mirroring configuration. Performance makes zero difference for a media server anyway.

Get a second 3-4 TB external drive as a backup that you only plug in occasionally to actually update your backup. Keep the backup offsite most of the time if possible.
 
I might as well ask this here as well seeing as I have some pretty knowledabge people in here speaking about their RAID's and giving me HDD advice now. I do appreciate it learning a bunch. My main rig I did away with HDD's and just using SSD's so I'm out of the loop a bit.

So I'm looking at these guys which gets your vote? Drescherjm I added in your suggestion it's a bit pricey though, thanks for showing me B&H that's a pretty solid looking retailer.

$110 WD Red 3TB Intellipower SATA III 6Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (NAS) WDBMMA0030HNCNR
$100 WD Green Desktop Mainstream 3TB IntelliPower SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive WDBH2D0030HNC-NRSN

$93 Toshiba 3TB Desktop 3.5 B&H # TOHDIB3 MFR # PH3300U-1I72
$120 Toshiba 4TB 7,200 RPM SATA III Hard Drive PH3400U-1I72

$125 HGST 3TB Deskstar NAS 7200 rpm HG0S03660 MFR # 0S03660
$149 HGST 4TB Deskstar Coolspin B&H # HGHDIS34 MFR # 0S03359

This is sort of tricky since HD reliability is sort of a crap shoot. I really don't know much about Toshiba but they do have the best Price/TB on the 4TB drive. But the WD red / HGST drives probably have the better reliability. $149 for the 4TB HGST seems a bit too much I could roll the dice and buy 2 cheap 3TB Drives for almost that. I'm thinking the $110 WD Red 3TB or one of the Toshibas, not sure if $15 is more is worth it for the HGST 3TB over the red. What do you guys think?
 
For a media drive? I'd get the 4TB Toshiba assuming the warranties are the same. There's no reason to think the WD Red or HGST drives would be less likely to fail.

I'd also get a 4TB USB drive to go with it.
 
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