Home RAID1 Mirroring?

[Nuggette]

Hi guys,

My storage harddisk just failed unexpectedly, not even triggering SMART or anything, making this the second time a drive just fail on me without warning.

Am thinking of getting 2x 3TB drives and set them up under RAID1 as storage. After reading around the forums, am planning to use windows software RAID for portability. However, I understand that every time my system crashed, windows will resync and caused huge lag to the system?

FYI, I am using a SSD as OS drive at the moment.

My question is, is there any better alternative?

 

[davidktw]

Hi guys,

My storage harddisk just failed unexpectedly, not even triggering SMART or anything, making this the second time a drive just fail on me without warning.

Am thinking of getting 2x 3TB drives and set them up under RAID1 as storage. After reading around the forums, am planning to use windows software RAID for portability. However, I understand that every time my system crashed, windows will resync and caused huge lag to the system?

FYI, I am using a SSD as OS drive at the moment.

My question is, is there any better alternative?

The load imposed by a recovering array will be common across all RAID solution. It's just a magnitude of differences. In Linux MD, it is possible to set a maximum limit to the rate of recovery which makes an online system quite functional at the expense of slower recovery.

I'm not sure if Windows dynamic disks solution have such functionality. Maybe someone well verse in Windows operation can advise.

I don't think you should be too concerned with the performance of a recovery process unless the system you are using is for server purpose. If it's a workstation, I'm sure you can give it a rest while it's recovering on its own. Will take quite a good number of hours up to roughly a day or more depending on your disk size and performance.

Other solutions will be mainly remote storage, but that wouldn't make it faster when it comes to recovery, but you can surely shutdown your workstation and your remote storage continue to recover on its own.