Currently I have a 640gb blue as my os, 2x1tb black as my secondaries and my 2tb green just came. Im thinking of moving my videos to my videos to my 2tb but I'm afraid of it crashing and would like to keep them on my blacks and raid 1 them but ot seeks pointless due to their performance, I'm thinking of maybe buying another 2tb and raid 1 them. or add an ssd as my primary and put the videos on my blue and clone a copy on my green ? What do you guys think?
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RAID the 1TB blacks or 2TB greens
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Chrisroman
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I've had very good experience with the Samsung F4 2TB green drives.
I bought a Thecus N5200 a couple of years ago with 3 1TB Western Digital GP drives. 1 gave me issues and I RMA'd it, then discovered what TLER meant, turned it on, and they have worked fine ever since. I've since installed the other 2, Raid 6'd them, and have had no further problems with the WD GP drives. I even picked up 2 spares as the models that would work with my NAS were getting hard to find, but have not needed the spares, YET.
I would be careful about having the RAID 1 as your only backup. If you lose power while writing to the array, or get a good power glitch, you can smoke both your copies at the same time.
You should keep AT LEAST 1 copy of your data Offline. That way of your computer goes all Fukushima on you, you still have a good copy of your data.
Don
I would be careful about having the RAID 1 as your only backup. If you lose power while writing to the array, or get a good power glitch, you can smoke both your copies at the same time.
You should keep AT LEAST 1 copy of your data Offline. That way of your computer goes all Fukushima on you, you still have a good copy of your data.
Don
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RAID1 on the primary system, and then an additional backup system that may or may not use RAID. Get redundancy from the RAID as a redundant "short term memory" that ensures if a drive dies you do not lose short term changes to your data, and then the backup system is used as "long term memory."
I haven't lost a byte of data since I went to that redundancy scheme; I'd have to have both RAID drives fail at the same time as the RAID array in my backup system (yes, I have a RAID on my backup because the drives were cheap enough at the time). Four hard drive failures at once just isn't going to happen; not unless a higher power wants me to lose my data (which at that point I shouldn't fight it and just accept my fate)
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One of these days I'll do off-site storage as well I imagine, but not until my data is actually that important.
I haven't lost a byte of data since I went to that redundancy scheme; I'd have to have both RAID drives fail at the same time as the RAID array in my backup system (yes, I have a RAID on my backup because the drives were cheap enough at the time). Four hard drive failures at once just isn't going to happen; not unless a higher power wants me to lose my data (which at that point I shouldn't fight it and just accept my fate)
.One of these days I'll do off-site storage as well I imagine, but not until my data is actually that important.