borisko
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- Jun 27, 2019
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Hi everyone, pardon my questions if they're basic but despite my extensive searches I'm still new to Freenas and raid formats.
I am trying to achieve the perfect balance of redundancy, performance and safety in a home-enterprise environment.
My issue: the place I live in (Philippines) has risks of earthquake and other natural disasters, thus would need something I can grab and take "on the go" in case something goes wrong.
I have a 4TB Seagate backup plus external hard drive that I was thinking will be used for just that.
Here was my initial thought:
Get 2x4TB hdds (probably some WD red) set as mirrored/raid1 (for complete redundancy) and my external hdd as the 3rd mirror of those two.
I know it sounds overkill and a big loss of storage space, but I value safety over all as this will hold my daily data as well as some backups (will set up a 3rd back up off-site system along the way later).
Is it the best solution or the right raid setup though? Or at least is it possible to have 2 mirrors of a single drive under raid1 (and does it very badly affect performance)
Lastly, In case of natural disaster, can I just grab the external HDD and expect it to mount as a regular drive on another computer (which is the actual purpose of this setup).
Thanks in advance for your inputs!
I am trying to achieve the perfect balance of redundancy, performance and safety in a home-enterprise environment.
My issue: the place I live in (Philippines) has risks of earthquake and other natural disasters, thus would need something I can grab and take "on the go" in case something goes wrong.
I have a 4TB Seagate backup plus external hard drive that I was thinking will be used for just that.
Here was my initial thought:
Get 2x4TB hdds (probably some WD red) set as mirrored/raid1 (for complete redundancy) and my external hdd as the 3rd mirror of those two.
I know it sounds overkill and a big loss of storage space, but I value safety over all as this will hold my daily data as well as some backups (will set up a 3rd back up off-site system along the way later).
Is it the best solution or the right raid setup though? Or at least is it possible to have 2 mirrors of a single drive under raid1 (and does it very badly affect performance)
Lastly, In case of natural disaster, can I just grab the external HDD and expect it to mount as a regular drive on another computer (which is the actual purpose of this setup).
Thanks in advance for your inputs!