Hello.
The time has come again to increase my storage capacity and I am reviewing my options.
At the moment the disks I have that are of usable size:
2x 250GB WD SATAII drives (bought when SATAII first came out)
2x Samsung F1 1TB
I would like to move to a RAID1 on my OS which I currently have on a 150GB partition. Should I use my 2 250's? on would I benefit from buying 2x 320GB drives (single platter) - may spend the extra on 2x 500GB single platter disks.
Now, the obvious choice for data is to get a couple more 1TB drives and a controller with inbuilt parity chip for RAID 5. Unfortunately this is not a expandable solution and I don't really need the redundancy. I also have concerns about how secure RAID5 is on the desktop.
(Nightly shutdowns and the rebuild time will be huge quite large on a storage array this size if a drive does fail. Moving the disks from PC to PC may result in losing all the data if the storage controller forgets the RAID setup and lets not forget if the RAID controller dies, which is very likely if I use a controller that is designed for high airflow 1/2u servers.)
So here I am. I've not set a budget as I would like to see people ideas on this and will judge them on individual merit and their associated costs. I'm unlikely to spend more than £500 on it though.
Thanks.
The time has come again to increase my storage capacity and I am reviewing my options.
At the moment the disks I have that are of usable size:
2x 250GB WD SATAII drives (bought when SATAII first came out)
2x Samsung F1 1TB
I would like to move to a RAID1 on my OS which I currently have on a 150GB partition. Should I use my 2 250's? on would I benefit from buying 2x 320GB drives (single platter) - may spend the extra on 2x 500GB single platter disks.
Now, the obvious choice for data is to get a couple more 1TB drives and a controller with inbuilt parity chip for RAID 5. Unfortunately this is not a expandable solution and I don't really need the redundancy. I also have concerns about how secure RAID5 is on the desktop.
(Nightly shutdowns and the rebuild time will be huge quite large on a storage array this size if a drive does fail. Moving the disks from PC to PC may result in losing all the data if the storage controller forgets the RAID setup and lets not forget if the RAID controller dies, which is very likely if I use a controller that is designed for high airflow 1/2u servers.)
So here I am. I've not set a budget as I would like to see people ideas on this and will judge them on individual merit and their associated costs. I'm unlikely to spend more than £500 on it though.
Thanks.