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John Shofner

John Shofner

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Having just taken delivery of my Scarlet-w its dawning on me that I need a much more robust storage solution than I currently have. (Dont ask...)

I feel like the Lacie 5Big 30TB is the best bang for buck at $3k but im looking for opinions as I dont have any experience with storage at this level. Ive seen Maxx Digital and G-Drive as well but they are more expensive for the same amount.

Thoughts?
 
My experience with G-tech and Caldigit has been much better than with LaCie.
 
You can probably save a bundle by building your own RAID solution. And make sure to plan for backing up the RAID regularly and keeping copies offsite if possible.
 
I own a 20TB synology disk station for storage of projects im working on. then work off of a 4tb g drive. then when im all done i put them on cheap WD hard drives on my shelf
 
I have an Areca 8-bay Thunderbolt 2 RAID. It's great. It's a hardware RAID controller, so it has a system that monitors the health of each disk. I run a RAID 50 setup with it, not sure if you're familiar with different RAID types. Basically, a RAID 5 is when you stripe data across 3+ drives, you get a slight performance boost and you also get data redundancy (protecting against one drive in the set failing, you won't lose data) at the small sacrifice of about 25% capacity. A RAID 0 is when two drives are striped purely for speed. It doesn't create any file redundancy (like RAID 5) so you actually double the risk of data loss (a single drive failing means you lose everything in a RAID 0).

A RAID 50 on the other hand... That's when you first create two separate RAID 5 sets: in my case, four 4TB drives in one RAID 5 volume and four 4TB drives in a second RAID 5 volume--each of these is 12TB after the RAID 5 data loss is factored in. Then you RAID 0 them together to combine their capacity and also get a read/write boost. I've achieved read/write speeds that beat most SSDs (1000MB/s+ write speeds). I'm protected against one drive failure from each of the RAID 5 volumes. If two die in the same volume then I've got issues, but knock on wood...

I probably spent around $3k for my setup last year, it's 24TB total.
 
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