Worth the money - setup with cheap external WD USB3.0 drives - Raid 6 LSI 9460 controller WD120EDAZ

[ComSpitfire2020]

Actually you have to pay for a cheap internal 3,5" 12TB HDD 230€, for a 12TB USB 3.0 drive you pay about 170€

I bought 8x 12TB WD MyBook USB 3.0 drives and used it on a LSI 9460 controller.

I am not interested in more functions of the drives, reliability or better features. my interests are performance and price. that's the reason why i run a raid 6.

The initialisation time was 18h

2MB assigment NTFS / 1MB stripe / no BBU

1. results ..

 

[Ready4Dis]

Nice, seems a cheap raid is working out. Keep us updated on how it holds up. I'm running 6 2.5" spinners (just cheap laptop drives) in raid 10... Been that way for over a year now, no issues yet. If only my server supported 3.5" drives, so many more options!!