Raid storage on a PC running windows 10

May 2, 2018
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Hey guys,
Just built a pc this past month and was looking to add a few harddrives for photo shortage. The PC is running windows 10, which I believe comes with its own raid software, and my motherboard has 6 sata3 slots, and supports raid 5, which what I would be running. I was thinking of using 3-4 seagate 4tb drives, allowing me to store a few thousand RAW photos and HEVC video clips. I was wondering if I just bought 3 harddrives right now, running in raid 5, would it be a hassle to add another few drives in the future?
Thanks,
Eric
 
Solution
In the consumer space, RAID is rarely the answer.

It only wards off physical drive fail. It does nothing for the far more common types of data loss.

Add drives as needed. Save to them.
Have backups of them.
MB or software /Windows RAID 5..... = begging to lose all data at the drop of a hat....

RAID 5 will not allow for inclusion of more drives into RAID...short of replacing/rebuilding them one at a time...which often causes an additional failure under the stress of the rebuild :(