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Post by rinconmike on Feb 24, 2007 21:08:20 GMT 7
I would like some opinions on Redundancy.
Which would be better, Raid 5 plus a Hot spare or Raid 6?
I will be using Seagate 750GB ES Drives.
Then again, is Raid 5 with a hot spare even needed (use all 5 disks as Raid 5).
thanks,
Mike
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Post by turtlesoup on Feb 25, 2007 9:19:28 GMT 7
Depends on how important your data is. I personally use 5 disks in a raid 5. I think the odds of 2 hard drives just completely dying at the same time is pretty slim. I would think it more likely that the n5200 would just freak out one day and delete all my data.
So personally I would recommend using all 5 drives in a raid 5. But if the data is really important I think it would be best to make back ups on another computer, NAS, etc. as well.
Simply put, any data you can't live without should be stored in more than one location.
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Post by mark2c on Feb 25, 2007 15:43:19 GMT 7
Raid 5 is faster than raid 6.
Raid 6 still has redundancy when you are rebuilding the raid - raid 5 does not.
I have the same drives and chose raid 6. Still need off site backup for critical data regardless of raid type. Hope this helps.
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