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New CineRaid + Drobopro Time Machine – Raid 5 or 6?
I am finally getting some modern data storage. I have a 16 drive Cineraid with 6G drives on order and a Drobopro FS strictly for continuous Timemachine back ups.
Both will be 16 TB each of storage.
Does it make sense to set up the Cineraid as raid 5 or raid 6 in this instance?
I’m hoping to see Kona utility throughput of 1500 megs/sec or better, but I’ll post when I get the system set up.
Can’t wait to hear Bob yell at me on this one….
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for max performance, use RAID5. RAID 6 is great, if you refuse to pay attention when you get a failed drive notice. Most people use RAID 5. The CineRaid is teriffic, but of course, you have not stated what host controller you have. Is it the new 1880 card ?
I am not a drobo fan, but for backup – what the heck.
Bob Zelin
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Richard,
When applicable & depending on the product, we recommend RAID 6, the key reason is that if you have a drive fail in RAID 5 and rebuild and another drive dies, you’ll lose the whole array. In RAID 6 if a drive dies, and another dies during the rebuild you’re still protected. I personally don’t recommend Highpoint cards, (support issues, firmware updates are slow & far between) we are partnered with & only recommend ATTO, specifically the R680 card with which our 8 bay STARDOM SOHOTANK 6Gb/s has RAID 6 performance of 830MB/s read/write. It’s validated and used by Blackmagic Design
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Thanks for the input. I believe they use the Areca cards. If I am correct Raid 6 takes a slight loss in write speed over 5, but they should read the same? Might stay with raid 6.
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