Let’s Talk About Hardrive Excellence In Custom Raid Systems
Custom built systems can have what’s called Raid, for example let’s say you have 4 Three Terabyte hard drives. That’s a total of 12 terabyte or 12,000 Gig hard drive space. There are two ways I recommend depending on what you are doing but just because of the sheer size of these hard drives I would recommend a mirror strip in other words you could have it save half to one hard drive and half to another hard drive and when you access it you are only accessing half the data from one drive and the other half from a second drive improving performance. Now you may ask what about the other 2 hard drives, well they back up the other 2 so when not if a hard drive goes out you can get a new hard drive put that in and have everything back to the way it was right before the hard drive went out and you never have to do any backups because as you do something on your computer it is automatically backed up to the other 2 hard drives. In this example it gives you 6 Terabyte of usable space and then 6 Terabyte to back it up and that’s a lot 6,000 Gig in other words. You could also have it faster in 3 ways. 1. Get 10,000 + rpm hard drives 2. Get solid state hard drives or 3. Use Raid to save a quarter to each hard drive and it only has to access a quarter of the data from each hard drive thus improving performance and giving you the full 12 Terabyte or 12,000 Gig of space but no backup and that’s a lot to back up manually, that’s a lot to backup period.