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16TB RAID 5 means I need… 24+TB RAID 1 for archive?
Hello all,
I’m hoping you can help me out here: My office just got a new 27in iMac 5K as part of our upgrade from the current 2011 MacPro Tower we use for video editing.
The iMac has 2TB of onboard storage, and I’d like to add the OWC Thunderbolt 2 – 16TB RAID5 Array (here: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1078688-REG/owc_other_world_computing_owctb2srt16_0s_thunderbay_4_16tb_72_4_bay.html_) as my media drive.
With that in mind, I’m looking at options for archive/backup storage. Knowing that the OWC will only be 12TB of storage after RAID5, plus the 2TB onboard – that means I need a backup solution at least 14TB+ in size. I don’t see 14+TB single HDDs so… does this mean I need ANOTHER array? Obviously, RAID1 for archive which means I need a 28TB+ RAID1 just for backup?
I’m hoping there is a cheaper solution than getting another array just for backup?
Thanks so much for any direction you can provide!
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Nevermind. I think I’ve solved my own problem.
I’m going to get a 14TB+ array in JBOD and SPAN it. Just in case anyone else comes here looking for a cheaper solution than a 28TB+ RAID 1 lol. The redundancy isn’t there, I know, but with RAID 5 plus this backup – I feel safe enough.
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Since you’re about to embark on upgrading your raid you might want to think about going with Raid10 instead of Raid5. You would lose half of your raid to mirroring but you would also have a safer raid overall. I have two OWC Thunderbays set up in Raid10 and they’re working well.
Here’s an article explaining why Raid10 is preferred over Raid5:
https://www.baarf.dk/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt
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When designing storage redundancy keep this question on your list:
“What is the process to get back to desired redundant state after failure?”Unless you’re using SSD drives (which I would assume you do not) you should not use Raid-5/6.
You’ll waste capacity as a tradeoff to redundancy, but the chances to recover the Raid in failure scenarios is a bit low:
https://www.enterprisestorageguide.com/raid-disk-rebuild-timesI agree with Greg Janza’s benefits of Raid 10, but what will happen once a failure occurs?
An alternative is to look for redundancy through multiple copies or erasure coding for larger capacities.
Yuval
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