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Originally Posted by CigarNut
Do you guys run RAID 5 on your media storage?
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I have 7 platters in my main rig, Michael.
I set up 6 of them in a fake raid. I just backup drive F to G, H to J, etc.
I used to raid everything, but it ate hdd's at a rate that was ridiculous for all the more duty I was putting on them.
Raid 5 is gonna give you the equivalent of a write and two disk reads for every write. Basically thrice the duty on the platters.
A simple backup is going to give you one extra write for as many reads as you want. Saves heat, platters, and replacing them.
I've had one hdd die in this latest build, and that was within the first couple months. It was just a junk hdd.
Were I running raid, this is about the time I'd be replacing them one at a time.
Mind ya, I realize I have a chance of losing some media, albeit very small.
I don't care about that, media can be replaced easy enough and it'd be nice to get rid of most anyways.
My important stuff is backed up on 3 drives. I haven't lost anything since 2001. Knock on wood.
