So your pc came with 4x500GB drives and then you setup up for raid 10 and got 500GB of usable space - and you don't think that was a waste? When you could of had multiple different setups for better use. What about encryption, do people think that is overkill for a home environment?
I am aware raid is not a back up that is why I have backups of backups and seeing as this pc came with 4 500gb hard drives it wasnt a waste, as it was in with the price, that is why I am posting here, to ask for advice on what people think based on the needs I have put up, if raid is overkill then I can change it, but unless I ask the questions how am I to get the answers )
The fact that when I used WHS2011 that is how it set up the drive 60GB for C:\ the rest of the drive was left for me to do what I liked, ahve looked at that drive pool app, looks good, so I may change from raid to that, seeing as it will do much the same thing :) So copy on my computer, copy on the storage box (2 different disks in the pool) in the cloud on my webhost space, on dvd on my shelf in my home - and another dvd copy at my sons house in case my house its taken to OZ in the next big storm, etc. Now my critical files like home video/pictures are BACKED UP!! In multiple locations on multiple disks and media. I have them on digital storage because its easier to access that way. Sorry but my media files don't need parity - I can just rerip them if drive fails. I can use different size disks, I don't waste space on parity when what I am storing does not require it. There are plenty of advantages to this method, and yes windows 8 spaces is along the same lines. If I have files that I want to survive a disk loss so that I don't have to restore from my backup, then you can set directories to have copies on more than 1 disk, etc.
Does not have to be the same speed either, etc. I can add to this storage by just buying the best sized disk, be it 1TB, 2, or 3 or even 4TB and just add it to the pool. I don't really care which one a specific file gets written too, is stored on. So I access //storage/media and I have access to all 3 drives in the pool. Its a way to access all the space of the disks under a share. What could you possible have in home network that could not survive an outage for restore from backup? If you are running raid 10 in the home - your wasting money IMHO! I just don't see how to justify it.ĭrive pooling/extender is not a raid. You do understand that RAID is not a backup! With what you wouldn't need to use raid 10? why would you need to use raid 10 in a home setup for ever? That is OVERKILL for storing anything in your home. And where did you come up with that? That is min install size if I recall, not what it uses.
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