Questions about setting up a RAID Drive

[Ruyki]

Snapraid might be a good option for the OP. I didn't use it myself but others use it.

"SnapRAID is an application able to make a partial backup of your disk array. If some of the disks of your array fail, even if they are completely broken, you will be able to recover their content. It's only a partial backup, because it doesn't allow to recover from a failure of the whole array, but only if the number of failed disks are under a predefined limit.

With snapraid, if the failed disks are too many to allow a recovery, you lose the data only on the failed disks. All the data in the other disks is safe."

 

[dogwitch]

Oh yea that is possible but it's a whole different ball of wax. Losing a storage server isn't the end of the world when you have triple backups, offsite, etc and corporate money and resources to throw at it. Doing this for home use is just stupid imo. The shit will fail, it always does and doing it just for the luxury one large ass archive folder/drive is ludicrous.

true. i have 1 4 drive 14tb nas and really thinking about getting a 15 bay one to do desktop snape shots. i gotten that many pc now