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WD Sharespace....

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kdw1975

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I bought a WD Sharespace and set it up in RAID 10 planning to use it to store my photos and videos that I take. Up until now I have always kept them on a single hard drive in my machine and then have that backed up with an online service. Amazingly in the past 20 years I have only had two drives fail and both where DOA. I have never had a drive fail that I was using. To be fair I update my drives every 18-24 month and take my old drives and set them on a shelf indefinitely.

After reading some other buyers comments though I am hearing that the WD Sharespace is a very unreliable system that can't be counted on and apparently has the raid software stored on the drives. Meaning that if anything goes wrong you are screwed.

Here is my question. Am I better off using this RAID 10 Sharespace than I am using a single drive or does this cheap type of RAID 10 system offer me nothing over a single drive? I have never had a raid setup so I am a total newbie.
 
You would be better off doing RAID5 with that setup as RAID10 won't give you much of a performance boost, if any, with that device. Even though it supports gigabit, I'm betting your transfer speeds don't go beyond 10MB/s for any single user, making it pointless. RAID5 provides better disk failure prevention and decent performance as well. Also, you'll have more disk space to work with as RAID10 cuts it half with only 4 disks.
 
I have 3 WD sharespace boxes. All filled with 1TB Green drives. The one is completely dead. I used one of its hdds to rebuild RAID5 array in another WD SS box. So someway,somehow,the OS [some linux] which resides on the mirrored partitions at the HDDs ,rebuild itself to the newly inserted disk. RAID5 array is gone.What a mess :). Now I need to attach the drives from the raid5 to Linux machine and try to recognize and import the degraded array.
 
All of these consumer wd nas devices run linux and use linux software raid so it's fairly easy to rescue your data if/when the device itself fails. All you have to do is pull the drives, connect them to a PC, and boot into a linux livecd of your choice. The latest ubuntu is generally a good choice for this. Unless your drives are totaled, linux will find the array and allow you to mount and access your data with a few clicks.

I don't have any experience with your specific nas box so I don't know if it has hardware issues or not. I do know that you can blow away all of the the wd software and install your own linux.
 
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