Is Raid 10 possible with these many drives?

[mr 333]

If it is impractical then please tell me.
Motherboard-Asus Rampage 5
I am using 2 1TB SSD and 4 2TB HDD. How do i set up Raid 10 in this????
Please tell me the steps on how to do this.

 

[13thmonkey]

why do you want it? Do you understand what RAID10 is and it's purpose? Yes something is possible, 4x2TB HDD is raid 10, leave SSDs as single drives. Benefit-small, actual pain-high, potential pain-very high.

 

[mcnumpty23]

if using a version of windows that has storage spaces that would be my approach

its more versatile than hardware raid--i have a load of mechanical drives in storage spaces that i had lying about and not worth the bother of ebaying them as not worth much nowadays

 

[13thmonkey]

^ agreed, and when you are doing that, create a pool using 2 of the 2TB drives, and then add the remaining 2, you'll then be able to add (or upgrade) in pairs, if you add all 4 in then you'll only be able to change in sets of 4.

However that leaves no room for a backup, note that neither storage spaces nor raid are a suitable replacement for a backup location.

 

[mcnumpty23]

yep--i use external usb drives for backups so i can isolate them when not doing a backup

as mirroring in raid will also mirror any problems you have its not suitable for relying on as a backup

regular images to somewhere that is isolated from the pc is always my approach

 

[fluffa]

1, Raid 10 needs a minimum of 4 drives so the SSD's are out
2, Using the 2TB drives is a good way to get a performance boost out of them, although in Raid 10 you lose 50% space
3, Raid 10 will give you 4x read performance 2x write performance (providing you're not hitting your transfer bus limit)