Shroom
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- Mar 19, 2014
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So I've been thinking on how I want to set up the hard drives in my main PC, and I have a little question about how to work out the RAID.
Once I build a NAS and transfer the data off of my 4 x 1TB WD Black RAID5 array, I want to re-purpose some of those hard drives for local storage for my main PC. I'm thinking I would like to put 2 of the 1TB Blacks in RAID 0 just for storing locally cached media and Steam games.
What got me thinking was that backing all this up over the network to my NAS would be pretty painstaking and bandwidth-killing to do regularly, so I had another thought. Is it possible to use a third 2TB HDD as a perfect mirror for the RAID 0 array? I.e to mirror the (2 x 1TB WD Blacks) 2TB RAID 0 onto a 2TB Caviar Green. I know this is possible in FreeNAS but is this a common practice that most integrated solutions could support (i.e. X58 or Z87). If not, I have a RocketRAID 2310 card I could use but would prefer not to as it is limited to SATA II and adds about 30 seconds to my boot time (and no SMART functionality I believe).
Not really sure if this is forum is even the proper place for this question as it doesn't exactly have to do with FreeNAS but I figure there's a lot of RAID buffs here who might have an answer for me.
Once I build a NAS and transfer the data off of my 4 x 1TB WD Black RAID5 array, I want to re-purpose some of those hard drives for local storage for my main PC. I'm thinking I would like to put 2 of the 1TB Blacks in RAID 0 just for storing locally cached media and Steam games.
What got me thinking was that backing all this up over the network to my NAS would be pretty painstaking and bandwidth-killing to do regularly, so I had another thought. Is it possible to use a third 2TB HDD as a perfect mirror for the RAID 0 array? I.e to mirror the (2 x 1TB WD Blacks) 2TB RAID 0 onto a 2TB Caviar Green. I know this is possible in FreeNAS but is this a common practice that most integrated solutions could support (i.e. X58 or Z87). If not, I have a RocketRAID 2310 card I could use but would prefer not to as it is limited to SATA II and adds about 30 seconds to my boot time (and no SMART functionality I believe).
Not really sure if this is forum is even the proper place for this question as it doesn't exactly have to do with FreeNAS but I figure there's a lot of RAID buffs here who might have an answer for me.