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| Thread ID: 135883 | 2013-12-22 22:15:00 | Have you got a RAID system in your home PC set up | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1363341 | 2013-12-22 22:15:00 | I am thinking of setting up a RAID-1 system in my home PC. Have many of you got such a set up in your home PC. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1363342 | 2013-12-22 22:21:00 | Not me. Dont really need RAID | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1363343 | 2013-12-22 23:51:00 | What do you hope to gain? The only benefit from RAID1 is in the event of a single disk failure and is limited to uptime (provided you have a hot-swappable system and not usually an issue on home systems) and saving any data since your last backup. (RAID is NOT a backup!) You would be much better off sorting out a proper backup routine with that second disk. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1363344 | 2013-12-23 01:19:00 | No, not worth it unless you invest in a decent hardware controller and drives. I had a RAID5 setup in my old rig that was forever rebuilding it's self. I'd rather spend the money on an external drive and shadow protect. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1363345 | 2013-12-23 01:22:00 | Yeah I went for the "Backup across the network" instead of a "RAID". Much better for a home environment IMO. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1363346 | 2013-12-23 06:01:00 | File server out in the garage and a daily backup routine of files and a monthly backup of C drive (image). Backups are then copied onto an external drive I take to work | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1363347 | 2013-12-23 06:36:00 | I don't want to spend that much for just home use. I could just get mirror RAID up to increase the up time but it's not that essential for me. It's also inefficient when a whole HD is used for that just in case. So I just use 2 HDs, C1 OS. C2 Backup of 2nd drive. D is just my data with an image file. And a external HD. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1363348 | 2013-12-23 07:31:00 | I have dabbled with RAID 1, RAID 0, and JBOD before. I've come to the conclusion that there is no point for home use and a whole lot of hassles. RAID 0 for performance - doubles chance of hard drive failure and isn't that noticeable - SSD is a better solution all round RAID 1 for protection from HDD failure - only useful for always on machines that can't afford downtime - not as good as a simple backup routine for protecting data. More of an enterprise solution than a home one. (ok I guess if you want to protect your C: drive and can afford to buy 2 for that purpose it's ok but chances are it'll never happen) Remember if you get a virus or corrupt a file it happens on the mirror too. RAID 5, same comments as RAID 1, it is more efficient for storage space though. JBOD - largely pointless. You may as well use RAID 0 and get the performance improvement as both solutions lose all data if one drive fails. Only good if for some reason you need to combine multiple different disks into a single volume. Also in the unlikely event the RAID controller fails if you can't find an identical replacement your RAID array is probably useless - not so bad for mirrored but you will need to rebuild a new array. You can't switch RAID arrays using inbuilt motherboard RAID features between different PC's either. Stick to single drives. |
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