Raid 1 vs Raid 5

[Etheco]

What do people generally setup in there home servers?

I am looking at trying to get a home server setup for as cheap as possible but do want a decent amount of storage.

WD Black apparently do not work well with Raid 5 and only suitable for Raid 1 and you have to use Red for Raid 5/10

 

[Etheco]

Thats great, Thanks all. I plan to sync anything really important to the cloud eventually but i have shocking upload so i can't rely on cloud all the time

Will it matter performance wise if i had like 2 WD 2TB drives 1 Seagate 2TB and 1 Toshiba 2TB and placed that in a Raid5, I assume long as the drive sizes are the same i can put any manufacturer into the raid.

 

[Etheco]

me too... 1 mbit at the moment - it's painful coming from years of 10-15-100mbit uploads!

Ah well... back to Switzerland in two months and I'll be back to 500/15 until they make the upload symetrical in my new location






Any manufacturer is fine

Haha yeh my upload is 60kb/s still patiently waiting a year for fibre! i hate you BT i hate you!

And sweet, gonna keep a eye out on deals tomo/friday!

 

[Etheco]

Thanks, I decided to slowly buy the Red's and decided to ask Santa for some 2tb ones

Nice tip for the greens having the ability to remove spin downs.

Gladly prices don't differ much at the moment in drives