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Post by N2100Owner on May 19, 2007 15:36:10 GMT 7
What RAID level are you using? RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 or JBOD?
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Post by cyrilix on May 21, 2007 13:14:05 GMT 7
Looks like most people use RAID 5, and I would guess the reason is for the expandability. You can start with 3, add another, and add another (that's the reason I'm using it, anyway).
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Post by georg54 on May 30, 2007 2:14:12 GMT 7
What RAID level are you using? RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 or JBOD? Raid 5 + Hot Spare 5 Seagate Barracuda ES - ST3320620NS Running FW 1.00.10 Running FW 2.00.01 (23. August. 2007) regards, georg
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glo8al
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Post by glo8al on May 30, 2007 18:17:01 GMT 7
Just got my N5200 today. Have 5X Seagate Barracuda, ES 24x7, 250GB, 16MB, ST3250620NS running RAID 5 (4 with one hotspare) atm. I'm reading up on RAID 6 and may change to it later after I have checked out all the options and know hows it all works. Running FW 1.00.10
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Post by rkoops on Jun 8, 2007 21:17:57 GMT 7
I'm using 5x Samsung HD401LJ in a RAID5 configuration.
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Post by bill321 on Jun 15, 2007 21:12:12 GMT 7
Two N5200s. Both running Raid 0 (one backs up the other.) Not much a believer in Raid for data protection - give me backup any day.
One has 5 500GB drives (a mix between Samsung and Western Digital), the other 3 1TB Hitachi drives.
Bill
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Post by singaporeguy on Aug 24, 2007 8:26:09 GMT 7
Build my N5200pro with 5 X Western Digital WD7500AAKS 750GB drives running RAID 5
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Post by Geoffrey on Aug 30, 2007 7:57:06 GMT 7
Bill - what happens if a HDD in your main N5200 fails? I suppose you have to replace it and the restore from your backup N5200. Or are you somehow running both N5200s side-by-side so that if one fails then the other continues on?
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Post by n5200athome on Aug 30, 2007 14:31:18 GMT 7
I use RAID 6 on my office 5200, and RAID 5 on my home 5200 PRO.
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Post by sauron on Sept 10, 2007 6:01:40 GMT 7
I'm surprised to see several people using RAID5 with a hot spare here. There's no good reason to use that config really, as you've got RAID6 available. RAID5 + 1 hot spare means if you lose a disk, you have a window of vulnerability while the array rebuilds onto the hotspare in the event of a drive failure. RAID6 takes this out of the equation.
Hot spares are great if you have multiple arrays, as you can have 1 spare drive serving several arrays, but for a unit like the Thecus with only a single array, RAID6 is a better option.
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Post by teufel82 on Sept 14, 2007 18:54:59 GMT 7
Hello, I'm using 5x Samsung HD501LJ (T166) in a RAID6 configuration in my N5200 pro FW 2.00.00
Frank
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Post by escimo on Sept 29, 2007 5:55:34 GMT 7
Hi there, my old N5200 was configured with RAID 6 (4x250GB Samsung SpinPoint T, no spare disk available). The new N5200B PRO is configured with RAID 6 (5x Seagate Barracuda ES - ST3500630NS, without using the 5th disk as a spare disk). Why should I use RAID 5 on 4 hard disks with an spare drive, when I can have RAID 6 with nearly the same capacity and the ability that two drives can crush without data loss? regards
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Post by lordofschnitzel on Nov 3, 2007 8:06:40 GMT 7
I have two N5200 Pros and 9x Seagate 750s. I found performance wise it makes no difference if I set up 4x in Raid5 (1spare) or 4x in Raid0. At the end of the day the NIC is your bottleneck.
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Post by cascadepeak on Nov 27, 2007 1:58:45 GMT 7
My N5200Pro is configured with RAID 6 with five 1TB Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 HUA721010KLA330. ;D
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olivier78
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Post by olivier78 on Dec 21, 2007 17:43:36 GMT 7
hello, i am a newbie ,french.... ;D My Thecus: ==> 5200PRO ==> firm : 2.00.01 ==> DD : 3 SEAGATE 7100.11 500 GO (32 mo ) ==> Raid :5 ==> and RAID 0 with 2 SEAGATE 500 GO (32mo) ==> transfert : 44,9 MO/s .... best regards....
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