Decisions

[jaket]

Well im not sure what solution to go for Storage wise;

I have a PC50B with lots of 5.25" bays free.
i5 750, Asus P7P55D.

Thinking of getting 2x Lian Li EX-33B1
6x 2TB Hard-drives. Different Raid setups. 4 Drives RAID 1. other 2 non-raid.
Storage used for photos, music, movies.

Any other ideas?

 

[jaket]

I forgot to mention that the RAID 1 - 4x 2tb drives = 4TB useable will be used as Primary Storage for wedding shoots, 50GB roughly per wedding.....

4TB is for documents, movies, tv shows etc.. (currently at 1.8TB)

 

[jaket]

if your using 6x 2TB drives for storage then surely raid 5 would be far more sensible?

would allow for 8TB storage, and be able to recover all the data very quickly if one of the drives fails

i am thinking correctly that a raid 5 setup with x drives uses x-2 drives for storage, one drive as a parity disk and another as a hot swap that will take the role of a failed drive arent i?

True however I believe RAID 1 to be better data protection incase of disk failures. Yes may be more expensive but i'd rather have better data protection.

RAID 5 is single parity drive, RAID 6 is what you refer to, double parity.

I want to keep photos seperate from movies, music.