newtekie1
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Processor | Intel Core i7 10850K@5.2GHz |
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Motherboard | AsRock Z470 Taichi |
Cooling | Corsair H115i Pro w/ Noctua NF-A14 Fans |
Memory | 32GB DDR4-3600 |
Video Card(s) | RTX 2070 Super |
Storage | 500GB SX8200 Pro + 8TB with 1TB SSD Cache |
Display(s) | Acer Nitro VG280K 4K 28" |
Case | Fractal Design Define S |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard is good enough for me |
Power Supply | eVGA SuperNOVA 1000w G3 |
Software | Windows 10 Pro x64 |
So it's working fine for me to have JBOD, only reason to have RAID is because it would simplify things a bit by having it all one huge drive instead of several drives. Is it even worth it to do RAID for my situation?
Yes, RAID would be worth it for your situation. RAID-10 is only slightly more redundant than RAID-5. With RAID-5 you can have one drive fail and still keep all your data, but a second drive failure and all is lost. With RAID-10 you have two RAID-1 arrays nested in a RAID-0. So it is possible to loose multiple drives and still be fine, but it is also possible that loosing two drives will kill all your data. It comes down to which drive dies.
IMO, for your setup a RAID-5 would be sufficient, there isn't much point in going RAID-10, the space you loose isn't worth the minor improvement in redundancy. If anything do a RAID-5 with a hot spare instead.