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Is it possible to set up raid 10 with SSDs as your main drives and an HDD as your backup drive?

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  • NAS / RAID
  • SSD
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October 13, 2014 1:14:40 PM

If it is, is it good? Would I be better off just using the SSDs in raid 0 and having my PC back up files to the HDD Every night? Thanks!

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a c 93 G Storage
October 13, 2014 1:19:06 PM

There's no reason to put SSD's in raid. Get a large SSD. Use a HDD for backup - preferably an external one(or a rotation of 2) that can be kept off-site.
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a b G Storage
October 13, 2014 1:23:11 PM

All hard drive sizes have to be the same for a raid 10.

If you have Sata3 there is not that much to gain to RAID0 ssd drives, but plenty of data to use.

You might take a look at flexraid.

Also, raid1 is not a backup solution. It is just protection agiasnt disk failures.
If your OS crashes or files get currpoted; then you now have an exact copy of your crashed OS or currpoted files.

If your data does not exced the size of a single hard drive, then just get that single magnetic drive, and do file and disk image backups to it.
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a c 93 G Storage
October 13, 2014 1:33:26 PM

A local data backup is better than nothing. If you have a catastrophic failure(Virus, fire, flood, lightening strike), you could potentially loose every bit of hardware(and data) in the machine. Then you'd be glad you had a copy at the office, at mom's house, or wherever the off-site location is.
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a b G Storage
October 13, 2014 1:37:24 PM

In regards to external vs internal they both have their pros and cons.

Internal drives:
You get convinence of not having to plug them in, remove them, etc
You get easy automation. You can schedule backups easily to internals because you know they will always be there.
No data loss due to drops. You want accidently knock your internal drive off your desk while it is powered on and spinning.
Most external drives being sold are not as reliable, which is why they are cheaper.

External:
The main pro is that it cant be effected by your computer if it is not plugged in; a virus or power surge cant hurt an external drive not pluged into the computer.
An external drive will not have any wear put on it while unplugged.
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a c 943 G Storage
October 13, 2014 5:13:17 PM

the raid 10 you describe isnt worth building. Just get a single larger SSD with nightly backups to a raid1 pair of hdd's; or better yet Nightly backups to an internall HDD and another one to an external which you remove when done.
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