ok guys i have 2 TB worth of storage i raid 3 of my 4 drives to 1.36 TB would it be safe for me to put any data on the raid 0 drives as storage or not ..... the reason i raid 0 was so i didnt have so many drives on my desktop not for performance.
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word i agree...i didnt even understand the question. OP, Raid 0 is not very safe, it has no redundancy but it just increases performance. Perhaps you should search up some topics about raid. You could find plenty of them.
what im really asking is should combine all drives using JBOD or should i just stick with 1 boot drive and raid 0 the other 3 drives for storage i plan on using the 3 drives to store my high def movies for streaming and i just want 1 drive visible instead of 3 separate drives.
Maybe you'd be better off selling the 3 smaller drives and buying one large one to replace them?
If all you're concerned about is number of volumes, go with JBOD, at least in the case of a failure, you will still have a chance of recovering some of your data. If speed is not your goal, then don't RAID 0. You should expect to lose everything stored on a RAID 0 any day.
Think about it this way, if there's a 5% chance that any one drive will fail, then in a RAID 0 with 3 drives, you'll have a 15% chance that it your array will fail. People who take this risk only do so because they need the speed, and probably back up the array religiously.
JBOD can keep on going if one drive dies. You only lose the data on the one drive.
RAID 5 would be ideal for your needs.
I concur !
Safe? NO! Since you have 3 drives left, RAID 5 would be better, but you
lose a bit of storage due to parity. Gazfocus is right, why not just get one
big drive then?
Best (and cheapest) option of the lot.
Never heard of a worse reason for having a RAID 0 array.
What is the Stock 1TB drive with New Mac Pro?
I am looking to purchase a 1TB drive for the Mac Pro. I bought mine through a reseller and got too awesome a deal to pay for a BTO from Apple. I have been looking online for these "phantom" 32MB Cache drives but I come across conflicting in on most tech specs. The site will list as 32MB cache and the tech specs for same model will state 16MB cache.
Help! I'm running out of space fast.:
I am looking to purchase a 1TB drive for the Mac Pro. I bought mine through a reseller and got too awesome a deal to pay for a BTO from Apple. I have been looking online for these "phantom" 32MB Cache drives but I come across conflicting in on most tech specs. The site will list as 32MB cache and the tech specs for same model will state 16MB cache.
Help! I'm running out of space fast.:
I must reiterate: JBOD, think JBOD... go with JBOD (just a bunch of disks)
Open Disk Utility, for "RAID Type" choose "concatenated disk set." Add your 3 drives, click "create".
Done, and disaster is avoided.