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So I got the model with two three terabyte drives. The question now its drive configuration. RAID 0 makes me nervous. 1 loses me capacity. JBOD...best bet middle ground? I don't currently expect to be storing anything unique on it.
What makes you nervous about RAID 0? If one of the disks dies you lose access to all your data, but if one of the disks in JBOD dies, won't it still be a hassle to figure out which data you lost and which you didn't?
Of course, depending on the speed of your network the speed gains of RAID 0 probably won't matter at all as the N part of NAS will be your data bottleneck, so in that case JBOD is really the same thing from your perspective and may be easier to maintain.
RAID 0 has more points of failure than JBOD. Pretty much all of my computer crashes have been hard drive failures, so I'd rather lose half my data than all of it. And I don't think I need much of a performance boost anyway.
Could you add one more 3 TB drive? Then you can do raid 5 or 6 and have all of your data survive the loss of any one drive.
Not in this enclosure, no. That's a whole different price point.
I'd pick raid 1 and live in the cramped confines of 3TB.
Yeah, I went with raid 1.
I'm still playing around at this point, but I am not sure I want to eat the disk for RAID1.I have 2+TB of storage here to be backed up already. There'd be no versioning!
Well, it's all play for now. I'll commit to something over the weekend.
Iomega is sending me a new cable. I can't imagine how the cable that I've been using all this time with no problems suddenly went bad, but I'll be glad if that fixes the problem.
