I am looking for some direction on setting up a raid.
My computer currently has 6 3gbs SATA ports.
I will list my concerns 1st and then maybe you can answer my question on what would me best.
I was planning on buying 6 One Terabyte HDs and putting them in a raid and eventually wanted to transfer these hard drives to a larger system and add more. I did not know if their were certain raids that allowed you to add hard drives once a raid is already setup.
My main concerns in the system is redundancy if a drive fails.
And my other concern is which raid is better if you are writing to the drives a lot.
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I have 4 Terabytes of movies and Tv shows spread over 4 computers right now and I want to consolidate them.
I am Torn if I should buy a external enclosure that can hold more hard drives and has a built in card to handle heavier raid arrays.( If you guys think this way is better any suggestions would be appreciated)
My computer currently has 6 3gbs SATA ports.
I will list my concerns 1st and then maybe you can answer my question on what would me best.
I was planning on buying 6 One Terabyte HDs and putting them in a raid and eventually wanted to transfer these hard drives to a larger system and add more. I did not know if their were certain raids that allowed you to add hard drives once a raid is already setup.
My main concerns in the system is redundancy if a drive fails.
And my other concern is which raid is better if you are writing to the drives a lot.
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I have 4 Terabytes of movies and Tv shows spread over 4 computers right now and I want to consolidate them.
I am Torn if I should buy a external enclosure that can hold more hard drives and has a built in card to handle heavier raid arrays.( If you guys think this way is better any suggestions would be appreciated)