Im new to the hard drive enclosure and RAID 5.
I just setup a SansDigital TR5UT with Five 2TB hard drives. The purpose of this setup is to backup my collection of movie DVDs.
I thought I was set using RAID5 but now after reading some more on it Im worried that it might not be the best way to do it. From what Im reading even if you lose only 1 hard drive there could still be an error on one of the other drives which will make the whole array unuseable.
So at this point Im wondering if I should just do the Clean mode or JBOD where each hard drive shows up individually with no RAID?? I could just spread the movies over the 5 drives and if one fails I only lose that group.
I guess I could backup too with another set of drives?
I just setup a SansDigital TR5UT with Five 2TB hard drives. The purpose of this setup is to backup my collection of movie DVDs.
I thought I was set using RAID5 but now after reading some more on it Im worried that it might not be the best way to do it. From what Im reading even if you lose only 1 hard drive there could still be an error on one of the other drives which will make the whole array unuseable.
So at this point Im wondering if I should just do the Clean mode or JBOD where each hard drive shows up individually with no RAID?? I could just spread the movies over the 5 drives and if one fails I only lose that group.
I guess I could backup too with another set of drives?