Monday, January 2, 2017

windows 10 - Setting up RAID from near-scratch

I am a total newbie on this field but I am planning to set up RAID for my data.


I have a full 1.5TB HDD, a full 2.0TB HDD and an empty 3.0TB HDD, all connected with a Gigabyte GA-H270-HD3 motherboard (which is said to support RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10). Everything will be running on Windows 10 (and a little bit of Linux from time to time), OS which are on an SSD each.


I think I can do software and hardware RAID with that.


Here are my questions :


1 - Is it possible to have those different-sized HDD on Windows 10 ? (this wasn't the case back in the days but what about now ? Setting up a RAID 5 Array)


2 - Is it really the end of RAID 5 ? (RAID 5/10 setup) RAID 10 seems a lot less interesting and would require a 4th HDD.


3 - Isn't there anything like Synology SHR on Windows ?

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