I've been using raid 5 for years but it has it's shortcomings and I'm looking to find something better. My current hardware is as follows.
Asus Sabertooth z77 Motherboard
i7-3770 with the boost OC'd to 4300mhz
16GB ram
Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080
OCZ Agility 4 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
4 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Windows 10 Pro 64bit
My OS and main programs are on the SSD and my games and media is run from the Raid 5 on the 4 HDD's. I know I'm not using NAS drives but it's what I could afford.
I need something that with my current hardware setup will give me as fast if not faster reads/writes and data redundancy. Also if a drive fails, as with the Raid 5, I'd like to be able to just hot swap a new drive in and have it rebuild the data.
I'm not sure if there is anything like that out there and trying to search for info has just left me more confused. I've read about ReFS, Storage Spaces, ZFS, UnRaid and on and on and on....
I can't afford to buy new hardware of any kind. I need to make it work with what I've got. I just need speed, because of gaming and massive media files being used regularly and I need redundancy to protect all my data, on my current raid from failure. Any help is appreciated.
Asus Sabertooth z77 Motherboard
i7-3770 with the boost OC'd to 4300mhz
16GB ram
Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080
OCZ Agility 4 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
4 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Windows 10 Pro 64bit
My OS and main programs are on the SSD and my games and media is run from the Raid 5 on the 4 HDD's. I know I'm not using NAS drives but it's what I could afford.
I need something that with my current hardware setup will give me as fast if not faster reads/writes and data redundancy. Also if a drive fails, as with the Raid 5, I'd like to be able to just hot swap a new drive in and have it rebuild the data.
I'm not sure if there is anything like that out there and trying to search for info has just left me more confused. I've read about ReFS, Storage Spaces, ZFS, UnRaid and on and on and on....
I can't afford to buy new hardware of any kind. I need to make it work with what I've got. I just need speed, because of gaming and massive media files being used regularly and I need redundancy to protect all my data, on my current raid from failure. Any help is appreciated.