What RAID should I use for 8 drives?

What RAID should I use for 8 drives?

RAID 6 will give the best disk redundancy, which is necessary with 8 huge disks. It also offer more usable capacity than RAID 10 and in most cases better performance.

How many disks does RAID 10 require?

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RAID 10 is secure because mirroring duplicates all your data. It’s fast because the data is striped across multiple disks; chunks of data can be read and written to different disks simultaneously. To implement RAID 10, you need at least four physical hard drives.

How many disks can you lose in a RAID 10?

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In a RAID 10 configuration with four drives, data can be recovered if two of the drives fail.

Can RAID 10 have different size drives?

In RAID 10, do all drives need to be the same specification in terms of size, speed, latency, etc? The only absolute requirement for matching drive specs in a RAID 10 array is that the drives must be of the same architecture, e.g., all SAS or SATA.

Which is the best raid for 8 disks?

OneCD wrote: For 8 disks, use RAID 6. I agree. RAID 6 will give the best disk redundancy, which is necessary with 8 huge disks. It also offer more usable capacity than RAID 10 and in most cases better performance. No, create a single array, then decide afterward which parts will be accessible by whom.

How big of a NAS drive do I need for RAID 6?

If you’re buying 8 x 8TB drives for the NAS to use as RAID 6, you’ll need another 6 x 8TB drives to use externally if the array is to be filled to capacity after installation. So, 14 x 8TB drives. Your externals don’t need to be of the same size. You could use 4 x 12TB drives externally if you wish.

Can you add more drives to RAID 6?

With RAID 6, you can add drives to this array (if you have unused drive-bays in the NAS), or you can increase the size of all existing drives later by following the processes shown in the user manual. It’s usually recommended that all drives in the array are of the same capacity, make and model.

How big of a RAID array do I Need?

You could use 4 x 12TB drives externally if you wish. But you probably won’t fill the array with data immediately, so just purchase enough to hold a second copy of the data in the array.