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  Posted by Ryan Early on May 20, 2013 at 4:22 am

  Not sure if this is the right forum but I am looking for opinions on a raid system. I need to replace my current raid which is a firewire raid 5, the raid contoller has failed. Luckily my data is all ok and backed up.

  Does anyone have any experience with the promise thunderbolt raids. I am also looking at areca which I am told is better but have no experience with either. Also considering raid 6. Any feedback greatly appreciated.

  Alex Gerulaitis replied 12 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Chris Tompkins

  May 20, 2013 at 9:04 pm

  promise thunderbolt raids work great. Good choice.

  Chris
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  Alex Gerulaitis

  May 21, 2013 at 5:59 am

  RAID6 is vastly more reliable than 5; Areca Thunderbolt boxes (ARC-8050) are great. Don’t have a benchmark in front of me but it’s the range of 600-700MB/s in RAID6 with 7200rpm drives.

  It’s $1499 with no drives; with eight 4TB WD RE enterprise class drives it’ll run about $5.5K (usable capacity ~ 24TB) from Areca initialized and formatted; $500-700 less if you buy your own; about $700 less with 3TB drives; much less with desktop (not enterprise class) drives.

  Alex Gerulaitis
  Systems Engineer
  DV411 – Los Angeles, CA

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