If you want a network solution, synology and drobos are good, but pricey, and oh by the way, network blips can corrupt data, just saying, your RAID is no good if your SMB share spontaneously demounts at a very Murphys law timing.
I suspect they will have a Thunderbolt 3 version at some point which may (or may not) be faster, but it would be nice to move to USB-C. Note it's only Thunderbolt 2 at the moment. I would avoid concatenated drives (RAID 0) as they offer no protection. The OWC mercury products are good bang for buck, and are top notch in terms of support, speed, quality (hard to beat that). I'd either buy another high grade drive that is unliekly to fail, or, pay more, do a "real" RAID, be it RAID 1 or RAID 5. What it gains you is the ability to get software updates to your RAID management very easily, while updating firmware in an enclosure is often difficult.īut, no, I wouldn't just concat your two drives. People will say there's a performance hit by running software RAID on the Mac instead of in the firmware in the enclosure, but I don't see it.
Softraid will also support RAID 10 if you want to go there. I run a Thunderbay 4 "RAID" (using Softraid) and it's extremely reliable. You can buy the non-Softraid Thunderbay 4 and buy Softraid separately, but you save money if you buy the package. You need the SoftRaid software if you want to run RAID 5 and I don't think you need Softraid if you want to run RAID 1 (mirroring). Just to add, with the 4-bay OWC stuff, they have two versions, one includes Softraid and one does not. and they're NAS drives at that), and you can loose a drive, and, have 24TB, for "cheap" with some write stripe and lots of read stripe. You can do say an OWC Mercury ThunderBay 4, throw in say 4 8TB drives in RAID5 and you'd have 24TB pretty economically (say extracting from that deal above, next time it's in stock. If you want to spend alot or 12TB isn't enough, well that depends what you want to do. If you can spend a bit more, OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual, with bring your own drives, and slap in 2 drives of your choosing in RAID1, that's a good solution as you can loose a drive and it'll still go and you could put say 2 new 12TB's in there. That WD 8TB deal that keeps going on and off for like $150, which is a NAS grade drive you can extract (see for if it goes on sale again) is a very economical and "safe" option as NAS drives have lower failure rates. You're "safer" doing a single larger drive than what you're planning. My free advice, take it for what you will. Also, how are you planning to migrate the data to a new striped solution or larger drive? You're talking stripping, that means the opposite of protection, if one of the two drives fail, you loose data from both drives.
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