XFileSharing Pro - Raid or No Raid?? 12x2tb

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joebloggs
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Raid or No Raid?? 12x2tb

#1 Postby joebloggs » Apr 09, 2012 10:41 pm

If you have a server with say 12 x 2tb drives.

Anyone here just set each drive up as a seperate subdomain??

Would that workout okay if each drives data was backed up on a different machine?

How does this compare to raid 10?

How much faster/slower would the above set up be vs raid6?

Raid kind of worries me in that if you lose 2 drives with raid 10 you could lose your entire server data.

There must be a very good reason why everyone uses raid over lots of separate sub domains. Also say you have the nginx mod done, would you need to pay for 12 x nginx mods if the drives are all allocated to different subdomains?

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#2 Postby bhanuprasad1981 » Apr 10, 2012 5:11 am

i havent setup raid so cant comment, but yes if you use nginx mod you will have to pay for all 12 sub domains , but cost is less for servers on same machine

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#3 Postby ankurs » Apr 10, 2012 5:41 am

no raid = waiting for data to be lost on a drive failure

i would go with raid10, gives good performance and data is safe

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Going offtopic

#4 Postby Stefanzm » Apr 10, 2012 7:47 am

Got the answer already , its not needed to buy each time the nginx mod.
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#5 Postby bhanuprasad1981 » Apr 10, 2012 7:58 am

servers without raid and multi hdd needs multi subdomains on multi hdd in that scene we have to pay per sub domain / server for nginx mod , in my case i had my server with 4 hdds / 4 servers/subdomains but cost is less compared to physical servers

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#6 Postby joebloggs » Apr 10, 2012 11:51 am

ankurs wrote:no raid = waiting for data to be lost on a drive failure

i would go with raid10, gives good performance and data is safe

Thanks for you help. If we had a back up server with 12 drives though this would be okay right?

With raid 10 if 2 drives fail on same build then the entire 12 drives are lost though right? that is kind of worrying for us.


What about raid 6 ? this can have 2 drive failure i hear and still be okay?

Also about the 12 seperate subdomains one for each drive, would that not be quite a fast solution? without the worry of losing entire array?

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#7 Postby ankurs » Apr 10, 2012 12:14 pm

joebloggs wrote: Thanks for you help. If we had a back up server with 12 drives though this would be okay right?
how much time would it take to transfer 2TB from your backup server ? can you afford such a downtime ?
joebloggs wrote: With raid 10 if 2 drives fail on same build then the entire 12 drives are lost though right? that is kind of worrying for us.
chances of that are extremely rare, raid10 is safest; but its not an alternative to offsite backups
joebloggs wrote: What about raid 6 ? this can have 2 drive failure i hear and still be okay?
raid 6 has poor write performance & any 2 drive failures can mean you loose all data
joebloggs wrote: Also about the 12 seperate subdomains one for each drive, would that not be quite a fast solution? without the worry of losing entire array?
as i said previously, it depends if you have a offsite backup & the amount of downtime you can afford

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#8 Postby joebloggs » Apr 10, 2012 12:27 pm

Thanks very much for your fast reply to answer all the points. That has been very helpful.

cheers ankurs :)

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#9 Postby gLoad » Apr 10, 2012 1:29 pm

Just to add my point to the discussion:

do not forget that Raid 5/6/10 are usually found on high end controllers, that will surely provide an option to configure some drive as hot spare, and some monitoring software to instantly send an email when a drive fail or has an anomaly.

Bye.

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#10 Postby joebloggs » Apr 10, 2012 2:47 pm

gLoad wrote:Just to add my point to the discussion:

do not forget that Raid 5/6/10 are usually found on high end controllers, that will surely provide an option to configure some drive as hot spare, and some monitoring software to instantly send an email when a drive fail or has an anomaly.

Bye.

Thanks for your input too on this. The email alert is somethign we will certainly use.

thanks