For home use where heavy iops is not a requirement unlike a server environment I reckon raid is not worth the hassle and could potentially just create more issues. I would much rather just have a backup on another drive using some sync utility. But that's me and I'm not advocating others to do the same.
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For home use where heavy iops is not a requirement unlike a server environment I reckon raid is not worth the hassle and could potentially just create more issues. I would much rather just have a backup on another drive using some sync utility. But that's me and I'm not advocating others to do the same.
Well I have a NAS that cost me nothing since I already had the extra computer around. Only needed to buy the hard-drives (6x2TB for a total of 10TB). Running RAID-z and it is rock solid stable running 24/7 and I have no data loss or problems so far. Only time it goes down is when I shutdown for lightning every now and then or power outages (once its reported running time was almost 2 months of 0 downtime).
It also made the whole sharing of media so much better because I can share everything as 1 huge drive. So the media players, computers everyone can view directly from the NAS. I also have user folders on the NAS which currently you have to copy stuff to manually but creating a synch is incredibly easy.
I know the whole RAID isn't a backup solution but in reality I don't have write access. Only my downloads managers Sick Beard, Couch Potato and SABnzbd+ have write access (running on an Atom box I had around) and only the atom box has write access to the NAS (And on that Atom box only NTAuthority has the write access, those 3 processes run as NTAuthority, logging in remotely VIA remote desktop doesn't give you write access to the NAS). Apart from the user folders to which only the users have access depending on their login. I just put the PC in the garage and there it has been for a very long time.
I don't need large hard-drives anymore, because I never copy stuff from my NAS. Could easily run computers from only SSDs now (bit out of my budget however)
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Kuga
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So me wanting to go RAID is pretty much useless in my gaming rig?
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LVM could do the same for you if you want to create one large volume by spanning drives but that also has it's pitfalls as I found out the one day
