G+_andrew collins Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 PC BUILD QUESTION,,, ok so this is a hard drive question, i wanna build a pc with 2 tb hard drives a storage and put them in a raid..C DRIVE OR MAIN SYSTEM DRIVE i wanna do 2 250gb ssd in a raid? can you do 2 raids?,,I like western digital for the storage but which one,,RED,BLACK GREEN? FOR THE STORAGE, THE STORAGE WOULD HAVE MOST OF THE PROGRAMS ON THEM. #HARDDRIVE ,#PCBUILD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Foy Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Which RAID? Mirror? Stripping? Parity? I don't like the 0 & 1's. Do like the 5's and 6's. But with 2 drives in the raid, you will be limited. Software or hardware RAID? Since you said C drive I'm assuming Windows. You should be able to do 2 raids. Might need to have 2 controllers if done in hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Running 2 raids off of one controller works just fine. Because you are only running 2 drives in each array the type of drive won't matter. Personally I'd go with Blues for the 2TB storage drives (best price/performance/reliability.) I'm assuming you'll be running the storage drives in a RAID1 so a failure doesn't loose data. The SSDs that's a much harder choice on what RAID (0 or 1) you want to use. Either will be fine, just be sure you have a good backup system in place if you use 0. Eddie Foy When considering today's large capacity HDD units RAID 5 is a complete no-go, and RAID 6 is quickly headed to the same point. This is because of read error rates of 10^14 (lots of drives are around that claim 10^15 but are really 10^14, literally manufactured the same way on the same line and given a different sticker.) Of course when talking SSD RAID 5/6 is just fine because they fail in a different way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_andrew collins Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Oo thanks guys,,i was really wondering on which wd to go with for storage,,ive ran wd greens past 12 years in my 1st build with 2 failures,so i guess that not bad..as far as ssd goes ive used kingston,,but ive heard samsung is better quality..thanks again,,workin on my third build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_andrew collins Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Oops first line is suppose to say ok..not oo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jonathan Schober Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I personally use an older WD Blue 500gb for storage, a cheap hitachi 500gb for backup, and a Samsung 840 evo 250GB SSD for boot and applications. The setup works well for not having any RAID, and I highly recommend the Samsung SSDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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