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Qui Gon-Jinn · Post by **Qui Gon-Jinn** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:37 am

I have a Vox Black Box Raid unit.

Essentially it's 2 SATA bay's with a controller and a gigabit Ethernet connection.

I have 2 3TB SATA Drives.

Question is what is my best way to go with these?

I can go raid 0, Raid 1 or linear. Suggestions?

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:23 am

What's your goal? Max Performance w/no Redundancy, or Max Reliability/Failsafe?

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:39 am

+1 on that. if i had to choose blindly, i'd mirror them for redundancy. a little extra speed isn't worth the risk of losing everything, imho.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:32 pm

You don't need speed in a NAS. You want redundancy.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:26 pm

Yeah, go for speed on whatever you're backing up & redundancy on the NAS.

Qui Gon-Jinn · Post by **Qui Gon-Jinn** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:15 pm

Goal is more a NAS for storage on the network. The 3.5 TB's of space in my Media box is filling fast, The 1.5 TB external I have is 3/4 full.

Thanks guys.

Qui Gon-Jinn · Post by **Qui Gon-Jinn** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:43 pm

Doesn't matter. Enclosure won't see the full 3tb. sees 800gb per disk. Going to do some house keeping and put the 2 drives in my PC, and pull my 2 smallest drives for the enclosure.