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Dedicated RAID for backups? - Enquiries - 12-02-2024
Hi, Great Website and Channel!
I am looking to buy a Lockerstor Gen3 10 bay. I will mostly use it to store my whole family’s backup and photo library (which I would use to edit) and media. I understand as HDD gets filled up its speeds slows down. As I do a lot of photo editing, I want the connection as fast as possible and saturate the 10GB connection. Given the back ups would take the most space, should I dedicate 2 HDD and separate it with a Raid 0 for the backups and the other 8 HDD in RAID 5 for my photos and media? I don’t mind the Volumes / RAID for the backups to be slower. Would such an allocation speed up my media and Photo folders? Or should I just create one big RAID 5 and put them all in one volume?