What RAID level is right for you ? 2024

Choosing the right RAID level is crucial for balancing storage capacity and data protection. Our latest video demystifies the various RAID configurations to help you decide which one suits your needs. Whether it's RAID 0's full capacity usage, RAID 1's mirror reliability, or the advanced protection of RAID 6 and RAID 60, QNAP NAS has you covered.
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Dive into the details and discover how to enhance your data security with optimal RAID settings. Plus, use our RAID calculator to tailor your storage setup perfectly. Ready to secure and optimize your data? Click the link to watch now and elevate your data management strategy with QNAP!
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[@alienJIZ1990]

The thing that's always interested me about RAID 10 is compared to RAID 6, RAID 10 is much faster because of the striping vs dual pairity calcs of R6, but the tradeoff is if a 2nd disk fails, it depends which disk it is whether or not your array will fail. Each use case is different, but 1E, 6(0), and 10, (or ZFS) are the only ones I'd really consider using today with larger disks.
For home users, unless you rely on critical self-hosted services or something that you can't afford to ever have go down, I usually just tell people not to RAID them since you need backups anyways - just use the whole disk capacity as individual disks, then restore from backups if there's ever an issue. It's also a lot easier to recover data from an individual disk compared to a member of a failed array, but everything's always gonna be a compromise

[@QNAPCanada]

Thank you for sharing your insights! RAID configurations indeed come with tradeoffs, and it's great to see thoughtful advice for different use cases. Backup strategies are key, and we always recommend users choose what's best for their needs.