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- May 23, 2002
So a friend is building a new desktop and his wife is looking to expand her photography efforts. Currently she uses a 2tb external ssd, however it’s gettinf full. They can’t afford to continue to buy larger SSDs but I think would really get by better having a larger mechanic disk array for backup purposes.
That being said, since he’s building a new desktop there’s time to get an adequate case to house 4 3.5” drives on top of what he currently uses.
I’m familiar with raid 5 in the past (10+ years ago) and of you didn’t get a true XOR controller your array was dirt slow. Is that still the case? Are there any cheap ($100 ish) controllers that can run RAID 5 or am I better off buying larger drives and running a raid 10 off a lower $50 controller?
Or is all this boondoggle worth it and just skip right to a NAS?
Again I would like this to be fairly fast, ~100MB/s transfer speeds.
That being said, since he’s building a new desktop there’s time to get an adequate case to house 4 3.5” drives on top of what he currently uses.
I’m familiar with raid 5 in the past (10+ years ago) and of you didn’t get a true XOR controller your array was dirt slow. Is that still the case? Are there any cheap ($100 ish) controllers that can run RAID 5 or am I better off buying larger drives and running a raid 10 off a lower $50 controller?
Or is all this boondoggle worth it and just skip right to a NAS?
Again I would like this to be fairly fast, ~100MB/s transfer speeds.