Nikolai Hampton 💾<p>Help with file storage required…</p><p>Serious question, anyone who runs RAID 5. Has it ever saved you?</p><p>I am provisioning a household NAS and I’m trying to decide on RAID vs JBOD (with scheduled sync of important directories). </p><p>I ask because I have run probably dozens of RAID configs since the 90s, in different environments from personal to enterprise and in almost every configuration and it has always been a useless pain in the ass (for anything other than speed). </p><p>I accept the risk of RAID-0. That’s fine. But, for backup I have run RAID 5,6,10 and they’ve all screwed us at some time. </p><p>Other than RAID 1 (mirroring) it has never been anything other than a pain in the ass. Almost every serious failure we’ve ever had has been raid controller related, or sometimes file system related, which resulted in an unrecoverable spray of crap across many drives. </p><p>I have been out of the game for about 10 years, so does anyone have experience with modern RAID-5 that has actually been positive? </p><p>If so, what controller/devices/config? </p><p>Thanks. <br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/techsupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techsupport</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/nas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nas</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>server</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a></p>