In your post you note that this is going to be a RAID for home use - domestic purposes - but you don’t really say if you’re planning on running this as a dedicated NAS or whether you just want to have extra security with data being archived in your running machine.
If you’re planning on setting up a dedicated server for home use (then apart from noting that after a few days you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it) I would strongly recommend that you give particular attention
Screw NAS drives they are junk for idiots. Just do yourself a favour and get enterprise drives, cost a bit more worth every penny. If you don't understand why they are better I can't be bothered explaining because meh you don't understand storage in the slightest. As for software vs. hardware RAID it all depends because it always depends. However for home use software RAID is almost certainly the way to go. My favourite trick mind you is to put/boot on a usb drive. My day job invovles looking after more storage than 99.99% of people on Slashdot, where a we use a mixture of software and hardware RAID.
”If you don’t understand why they are better I can’t be bothered explaining because meh you don’t understand storage in the slightest.”
Jabuzz, before posting this reply I went back and read a few of your comments and I find most of them to be very well informed, constructive and to add real value to the thread in which you make them.
I hope you don’t mind me chipping in here, but I think in this case you have something of real value to add but you have not done so because, in your own words, you “can’t be bothered”. But the OP to this article was someone who specifically came to ‘Ask Slashdot’ for advice on setting up a RAID on a home server: someone who implicitly doesn’t understand storage.
I understand that you might not want to sit and spend the time it would take to write out a lengthy explanation of your own, but I’m also pretty sure that you would be able to point someone to a web page somewhere that did a decent enough job to convey they point you would like the OP to understand.
I don’t mean to be rude or condescending, but clearly you have relevant, topical experience to share. Just a thought.
Depends on where you're putting the NAS. For my own NAS, it's in a far-off storage area. I don't mind the loud Seagate Exos drives. But they are LOUD and thunky. If it's going directly in an office, I'll use the Ironwolf.
Backblaze's statistical publications show enterprise drives to be either not more reliable, or so marginally more reliable, that the cost can't be justified.
Hmm, Slashdot's editors use systems that insert characters that Slashdot's execrable non-ASCII-handling system can't handle. Naughty "EditorDavid" ! That emdash certainly wasn't in my submission.
Don't tell me that he's using something like Word to edit these things? And he's forgotten to disable the default typesetting interference options.
Quick Note On Drives (Score:5, Informative)
If you’re planning on setting up a dedicated server for home use (then apart from noting that after a few days you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it) I would strongly recommend that you give particular attention
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Chiming in to second the choice of WD Red. That's what I've got in my Synology NAS. Also made sure they were CMR, not SMR drives.
Do NOT get SMR drives for RAID.
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Screw NAS drives they are junk for idiots. Just do yourself a favour and get enterprise drives, cost a bit more worth every penny. If you don't understand why they are better I can't be bothered explaining because meh you don't understand storage in the slightest. As for software vs. hardware RAID it all depends because it always depends. However for home use software RAID is almost certainly the way to go. My favourite trick mind you is to put /boot on a usb drive. My day job invovles looking after more storage than 99.99% of people on Slashdot, where a we use a mixture of software and hardware RAID.
Re: Quick Note On Drives (Score:4, Interesting)
Jabuzz, before posting this reply I went back and read a few of your comments and I find most of them to be very well informed, constructive and to add real value to the thread in which you make them.
I hope you don’t mind me chipping in here, but I think in this case you have something of real value to add but you have not done so because, in your own words, you “can’t be bothered”. But the OP to this article was someone who specifically came to ‘Ask Slashdot’ for advice on setting up a RAID on a home server: someone who implicitly doesn’t understand storage.
I understand that you might not want to sit and spend the time it would take to write out a lengthy explanation of your own, but I’m also pretty sure that you would be able to point someone to a web page somewhere that did a decent enough job to convey they point you would like the OP to understand.
I don’t mean to be rude or condescending, but clearly you have relevant, topical experience to share. Just a thought.
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Depends on where you're putting the NAS. For my own NAS, it's in a far-off storage area. I don't mind the loud Seagate Exos drives. But they are LOUD and thunky. If it's going directly in an office, I'll use the Ironwolf.
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Which part of
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When I deal with professionals, one of the first things they'd do is (now, this is difficult, concentrate!) read the fucking job specification.
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Hmm, Slashdot's editors use systems that insert characters that Slashdot's execrable non-ASCII-handling system can't handle. Naughty "EditorDavid" ! That emdash certainly wasn't in my submission.
Don't tell me that he's using something like Word to edit these things? And he's forgotten to disable the default typesetting interference options.
"Why" is the obvious question.