6tb + ssd boot overkill for general use?

[Evil-I]

Be aware tha RAID is not a substitue for a regular verified backup.

Difficult one this, these days the only way you can sensibly backup the scale of data we all seem to generate is to other hard drives.

Even in work, although we backup our exchange email and most important documents to tape with an offsite rotation, the bulk of the data we generate is just too massive to backup to anything other than more hard drives (lots of graphics and video stuff).

So we have massive storage servers that are each multiply redundant running RAID6 that then mirror to an identical storage server. So at any time our data should be in three places, the originating machine, the primary backup server and the secondary mirror server.

It's a case of how far do you want to go?

E-I

 

[LordSplodge]

Difficult one this, these days the only way you can sensibly backup the scale of data we all seem to generate is to other hard drives.

It's a case of how far do you want to go?

E-I

Cloud backup. Gonna take an age to do the first but after that it's fairly quick. I've got a TB backed up this way.

That and an onsite backup too...probably disks though!

 

[psychas]

i has 64 gig ssd for boot and + 1 tb black caviar for games and other stuff i keep movies in portable hardrive more then enough

 

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

Iv got 3x 2TBs as storage in my nas. Currently only a single 1TB F3 in my itx build but wouldnt mind a SSD again but not really that important at the moment.

 

[Lanz]

RAID1 or RAID5, still no good for redundancy. Either one can have a file-level disk corruption that might scribble over your data - Better off just buying single disks and syncing/backing up folders that you wish to save onto the other disk. If you're really paraniod about losing data, have those disks in separate PCs around your house too - just incase your PSU goes phut and takes out all your components...

 

[Aurhinius]

I would invest in a good hardware RAID 5 controller with Hybrid drive support.

Check out Adaptec.

If you want to go down this route.

 

[bhavv]

This is how I've done it:

64 Gb SSD for boot drive (the current offer on the 60 Gb Agility drive is absolutely fine for this).

2x 1Tb Sammy F3s in Raid 0s for games.

2x 2Tb Sammy F4s unraided. One F4 keeps a backup image of the raid array that I update every month or two, the other F4 is for everything else that isnt a game.

Plenty of storage, and SSDs are completely overkill and too expensive for gaming compared to Raid 0 F3s, but with Samsung no longer in the HDD business, and SSD prices on lower specced drives such as the Agility falling, that may change within the next year or two.

The only way I can lose all of my data is if both one of the Raid 0 drives, and the Backup drive fail at the same time, which isnt very likely.

 

[Zarf]

Be aware tha RAID is not a substitue for a regular verified backup.

Oh, I am. For what I'm storing though the risk is acceptable vs the cost of a more robust solution.

 

[edscdk]

if your going to raid storage disks, it should be Raid1.

my setup maybe abit overkill for some
i have an SSD for OS/Visual Studio
Hybrid drive for Games/Steam
Velociraptor for storage
and F3 ecogreen for backup


any large amounts of storage i tend to dump on my server which has 12TB

you still gotta back it up (unless you dont care about your data)