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                        <title>Upgrading my RAID setup.</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/upgrading-my-raid-setup/#post-4105</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Yes you an just move drives to a new enclosure.

Yes, to add 2 drives to your RAID 0 volume, you need to delete and start over.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Yes you an just move drives to a new enclosure.

Yes, to add 2 drives to your RAID 0 volume, you need to delete and start over.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Upgrading my RAID setup.</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/upgrading-my-raid-setup/#post-4102</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hello again and thank you for your reply.

Your answers and further research on my side have made me re-evaluate my drive setup. Having my main RAID and its backup in the same enclosure se...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello again and thank you for your reply.

Your answers and further research on my side have made me re-evaluate my drive setup. Having my main RAID and its backup in the same enclosure seemed risky. So…

I will be purchasing a new ThunderBay 4 enclosure with Thunderbolt 3 and I'll fill with my 2 existing WD Black drives (more on that later).
I'll be using my existing WD Reds in the existing (slower) ThunderBay enclosure as a backup. The offsite backup will be on a 12TB WD Elements Desktop.

2 questions:
- Can I just take my volume from the old enclosure and put it in the new one ? 
- If at a later date I want to add 2 disks to the RAID 0 volume, must I start from scratch?

Alexandre]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Upgrading my RAID setup.</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/upgrading-my-raid-setup/#post-4073</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Your bottleneck is drive performance. Thunderbolt 3 will make no difference in performance. Eventually, yes, as Thunderbolt 3 is the connector all future devices will have, but the Apple ada...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Your bottleneck is drive performance. Thunderbolt 3 will make no difference in performance. Eventually, yes, as Thunderbolt 3 is the connector all future devices will have, but the Apple adapter seems to work fine.

4 drive RAID 0 will indeed double your performance. But you still need a backup strategy. 
"Every couple days" indicates this is not mission critical data, but you still need some way to recover in an emergency.

Mirroring is not the same as backup, but can work if you keep to your USB off site backup every few days (i.e, backing up whenever it would be painful to lose your main data) Mirrors give you real time "data availability", but cannot protect you from data corruption, theft, hacks, virus's, etc. Data is fungible. So protect it!

SoftRAID mirrors can be any disks. If they are different sizes, then the smallest disk will determine the maximum volume size. That is the beauty of software RAID, you can be very flexible on this.

In your case, a pair of Mirrors seems like it would be adequate for your needs.]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Upgrading my RAID setup.</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-volumes/upgrading-my-raid-setup/#post-780</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 23:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Hello SoftRaid Team,

I just bought a new 16” MBP and am in the process of upgrading my general setup. I have a few questions…

I have a ThunderBay 4 (Thunderbolt 2) containing my files,...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello SoftRaid Team,

I just bought a new 16” MBP and am in the process of upgrading my general setup. I have a few questions…

I have a ThunderBay 4 (Thunderbolt 2) containing my files, mainly RAW photographs (42MB each)

The ThunderBay is set up as follows:
2 x 6TB (WD Black) drives set up as RAID 0 for a total of 12TB. This is my main volume. Read and Write speeds are 300-310 MB/s. Can’t complain.

The other 2 drives (2 x 6TB WD Red) are also set up as RAID 0 for a total of also 12TB. The main volume above is manually cloned onto this volume with Chronosync, every couple of days.

(The main volume is also cloned to an offsite USB drive every 10 days or so.)

Question 1: Using my existing drives (WD Black), would I get more speed by upgrading to a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure? Or are the drives the bottleneck? 

Question 2: Would I get better speeds using a 4 drive RAID 0 set up?

Question 3: Presuming the answer to 1 and 2 is “no” or “only marginally”, I would like to change my set up to a RAID 1 configuration, so as to skip the manual backup. Do all drives have to be identical? Size, age, buffer? How do I go about changing my configuration? 

Or is it better to go for RAID 1+0 configuration with 4 drives?

Thanks in advance, 
Alexandre]]></content:encoded>
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