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Need a Recommendation RAID, Big Drives, media storage...

Jadow

Jadow

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I've been reading on here and my head is spinning.

I store movies that are about 5gb each on my hd, I want to reduce the chance of losing them due to drive failure, right now I have about 500gb worth on a single drive.

I also need more space, I'd like to buy 4-5 2TB drives and build some kind of drive failure tolerant, large storage array.

I also don't want to cram all these drives into one of my current pcs, I'd like some kind of external storage cage that connects to either a PC via USB 3 or SATA, or one I can connect to my switch via gigabit ethernet.

I really don't want to build or run another PC or a linux box.

Any recommendations on a solution for a "hd storage device", and what should I do for raid, I heard raid 5 is bad for using multiple 2tb drives.
 
so if you dont want raid 5 im going to assume you will be going with RAID 0+1? so running 4 2TB HDD's that will give you 4TB of storage space. Keep in mind you should also still back that up to either a couple of external drives or another PC, just because you have RAID does mean the array cant go tits up on you, always keep backups.

What type of performance are you going to need out of the array? alot of the consumer NAS/Drobo type devices are not going to be able to sustain over 20-30MB/sec, which is not enough to stream a blu ray movie but will be enough for compressed(h264,xvid, etc) HD content if only streaming one thing at a time. How many streams will you be using at once? And for the price of alot of the 4 bay NAS devices($300-400 or even more) you can build a PC thats going to be able to sustain transfer rates up to 4-5 times faster than most NAS devices.

here is a list of all the 4 bay NAS devices on newegg, as you can see they are not cheap and some only support up to 1TB drives. IMO you are much better off building a low power PC to handle your storage, it will be cheaper and faster and more flexable.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=100
 
thx for the info, the files will be h264 encoded, I'd like to be able to stream up to two at once.
 
* RAID 6
* Two twin controllers (one to run and one put away as a backup)
* Run the array behind a high quality UPS.
 
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I think what you describe will be hurt more than helped with RAID. A pair of single drives, that you synchronize each time you add a movie would be simple and fine. RAID will add a failure point. Sustained read speeds on a large modern disk are 120Mb/s and higher.
 
I ordered 2 x 2tb samsung F4 drives. Going to do either Raid1 OR do like Fishak recommended and I'll just copy the movies to drive 2 as I make them.
 
FishAk said:
I think what you describe will be hurt more than helped with RAID. A pair of single drives, that you synchronize each time you add a movie would be simple and fine. RAID will add a failure point. Sustained read speeds on a large modern disk are 120Mb/s and higher.
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This si also a good idea, rsync would work well for that.
 
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