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Offline Mister Fork

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Bought a NAS
« on: July 07, 2011, 04:22:04 PM »
Of which will be my main install loc for all my games including Aces High. It's a D-Link 323 with two 1tb hard drives. Question is, do I use them in RAID 0 or 1?  Which is better?  How likely is it to fail? if I'm not really storing important info on it, (mostly vids and shows) , should I go with RAID 1. Or is it likely to fail meaning a RAID 0 is ideal?

Opinions? Anyone else have a NAS?
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Re: Bought a NAS
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2011, 04:40:51 PM »
If it was me and I had an option, I would either just leave it as 2 seperate HD's or if I needed to RAID them I would go with RAID 1 ( mirroring )........ if yo u went RAID 0 your data is split 50/50 basically acorss both HDs

so if it became corrupt or if one of the HDs fail you lose all your data ........ If you are in RAID 1 you can sometimes recover/clean it if it becomes corrupt and still save your files....... and if you lose one of the HDs you have not lost anything because you have a mirror back up  to go with.....

just my personal preference


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Re: Bought a NAS
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2011, 05:21:19 PM »
Quote from: Mister Fork on July 07, 2011, 04:22:04 PM
Of which will be my main install loc for all my games including Aces High. It's a D-Link 323 with two 1tb hard drives. Question is, do I use them in RAID 0 or 1?  Which is better?  How likely is it to fail? if I'm not really storing important info on it, (mostly vids and shows) , should I go with RAID 1. Or is it likely to fail meaning a RAID 0 is ideal?

Opinions? Anyone else have a NAS?

I wouldn't suggest it as your main install location. It's a low cost/spec NAS and performance is nothing to write about. Sustain transfer rates won't go above ~20MB/s, if at all (still good enough for streaming everything but BDs maybe). Just use it as a data storage where performance doesn't matter as much.

As for the RAID, if you love your data very much, go with 1, otherwise just use drives independently, as TC mentioned. RAID 0 is not worth it on this NAS.
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Re: Bought a NAS
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2011, 05:27:39 PM »
Awesome recommendations on both counts - I didn't think of that.  RAID 0 might offer performance but if one goes both are toast and 1 if I need to protect the data.

I'll set them up as two separate drives then.  Thanks a bunch guys.  :salute
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Re: Bought a NAS
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2011, 05:48:44 PM »
RAID 0 or 1 NAS will be about 1/2 the speed of an internal SATA 1 disk (assuming you have a decent gig switch and nothing else on the network) and 1/4 the speed of an internal SATA 2 disk, so use it for file storage not programs.

RAID 0 will be 2x more likely to fail than a single disk with no benefit (see above), set it up as RAID 1 :aok
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