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Now if they are sitting on your PC that does not leave your home, and your not worried about your house mates looking at them, etc. Ie I wouldn't walk around with your thumbdrive with all your passwords in clear text for example - that could get lost or you could get mugged very easy.
If someone stole your PC, does it matter that got copies of your home videos?Ĭomes down to what your trying to mitigate risk of? Encryption is really only warranted when you don't have physical control of the device. Shoot you could of done 500GB for your OS drive, and then put the other 3 in raid 5 and still had parity and gotten 1TB of space on your array with 500GB to use for your OS and installed programs, copy of files you didn't want to have to restore from backup in case you lost a drive in array, etc.Īs to encryption - encryption of what? Who has physical access to the storage? Does the device with private information on it leave the home? Are you worried about theft of the device from someone breaking into your home? Do you plan on encrypting your backups that are also in your home - kind of pointless to encrypt your stuff and then have clear copy on external drive or optical media on the shelf, etc. So your pc came with 4x500GB drives and then you setup up for raid 10 and got 500GB of usable space - and you don't think that was a waste? When you could of had multiple different setups for better use. What about encryption, do people think that is overkill for a home environment? I am aware raid is not a back up that is why I have backups of backups and seeing as this pc came with 4 500gb hard drives it wasnt a waste, as it was in with the price, that is why I am posting here, to ask for advice on what people think based on the needs I have put up, if raid is overkill then I can change it, but unless I ask the questions how am I to get the answers ) The fact that when I used WHS2011 that is how it set up the drive 60GB for C:\ the rest of the drive was left for me to do what I liked, ahve looked at that drive pool app, looks good, so I may change from raid to that, seeing as it will do much the same thing :) So copy on my computer, copy on the storage box (2 different disks in the pool) in the cloud on my webhost space, on dvd on my shelf in my home - and another dvd copy at my sons house in case my house its taken to OZ in the next big storm, etc. Now my critical files like home video/pictures are BACKED UP!! In multiple locations on multiple disks and media. I have them on digital storage because its easier to access that way. Sorry but my media files don't need parity - I can just rerip them if drive fails. I can use different size disks, I don't waste space on parity when what I am storing does not require it.
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There are plenty of advantages to this method, and yes windows 8 spaces is along the same lines. If I have files that I want to survive a disk loss so that I don't have to restore from my backup, then you can set directories to have copies on more than 1 disk, etc. Does not have to be the same speed either, etc. I can add to this storage by just buying the best sized disk, be it 1TB, 2, or 3 or even 4TB and just add it to the pool. I don't really care which one a specific file gets written too, is stored on. So I access //storage/media and I have access to all 3 drives in the pool. Its a way to access all the space of the disks under a share.
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What could you possible have in home network that could not survive an outage for restore from backup? If you are running raid 10 in the home - your wasting money IMHO! I just don't see how to justify it.ĭrive pooling/extender is not a raid. You do understand that RAID is not a backup! With what you wouldn't need to use raid 10? why would you need to use raid 10 in a home setup for ever? That is OVERKILL for storing anything in your home.
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And where did you come up with that? That is min install size if I recall, not what it uses.