what RAID help

matt_griff · 10 May 2011 at 20:20

Hi, I had a recent drive failure and I lost all my data so I'm now looking to put 4 x Samsung f3 1tb in raid but not sure which raid I need.
The thing is while I'm waiting for Samsung to RMA my drive I have bought 3 and want to set just 3 up for now until Samsung send me the new drive which could take a month or more.
So what I want eventually is 2 drives in raid 0 but backed up by the other 2 drives.

Can I do this with 3 for now and then add the 4th drive when it arrives or will I have to just have 2 drives for now?

Mobo is asus p8p67 pro.

Thanks

matt_griff · 10 May 2011 at 21:12

I want 2 x drives in raid0 but backed up.

matt_griff · 11 May 2011 at 05:02

Yes I think raid 10 is the one I need.
Am I right in thinking that if I set my 4 drives up in raid 10 that If one drive goes down my data is ok but if more than one go down I have lost everything?

If I wanted to increase the size in the future to 6 drives would I need to format everything and restart the raid 10 or can I just add to the current raid setup?

matt_griff · 11 May 2011 at 19:20

Ok I think I understand what your saying.

Raid 10 does backup your data automatically but you have more chance of losing all the data over manually backing up?