From a price point of view that was not a good deal in terms of $/TB, but, if you need a lot of throughput you can easily create a 17 disk RAID6 array, but this requires an LFF storage system that can handle these many drives. Do you have such a system already or what was the idea to buy this many 1TB drives? Can you elaborate more?
From a price point of view that was not a good deal in terms of $/TB, but, if you need a lot of throughput you can easily create a 17 disk RAID6 array, but this requires an LFF storage system that can handle these many drives. Do you have such a system already or what was the idea to buy this many 1TB drives? Can you elaborate more?
I don’t plan to run them all simultaneously. I’ll have 3 data sets:
My main storage 1 TB, with a syncing copy of the whole TB on another machine and 1 offline copy updated perhaps every few months.
My family photos and videos, allocating 1 TB to the photographer of the family, with a synced copy attached to a digital photo frame.
My home video media server hosted on a cloud storage app I wrote myself. I probably won’t put in any redundancy for that set and will focus on size.
I haven’t learned RAID yet, but will sometime.