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  New Raid need advice

  Posted by Craig Alan on November 21, 2018 at 10:38 pm

  Looking for a new enclosure.

  Is Areca a good choice?

  Been using OWC

  https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1431797-REG/owc_other_world_computing_owctb36lrkit0_thunderbay_6_raid_ready.html

  I think 6bays w 8TB drives is a good bang for the buck given my needs.

  Seagate 8TB Enterprise Capacity 7200 rpm SAS III 3.5″ Internal HDD
  B&H # SEST8000NM75

  Other Suggestions?

  Will the SAS drives be a good choice?
  Told they are more reliable and faster than SATA?
  I assume I can still back up media up to individual drives using

  OWC Drive Dock Thunderbolt 2/USB 3.0 Dual Drive Bay Solution B&H # OWTB2U3DKR2

  I’m not a fast editor. But I do want reliable gear and do get stressed some times
  how long it takes to back up drives.

  I use OWC SoftRaid for formatting my drives and monitoring their health.
  I organize my projects into folders within a RAID 5 or JBOD.
  Then I back up to same capacity single drives for each folder which will be 80% of the size of the drives that populate the raids. Last go round I used 6TB drives x4 per raid. Noe I figure going to 8TB drives x 6per raid.

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  Craig Alan replied 7 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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