Howdy homies,
I hope this forum post finds you well. I recently upgraded from 4 to 6 4TB drives for my plex server. They're all hooked up directly to my motherboard and I was using fake raid for raid 5 for the 4 drives which took about 18 hours to initialize. I backed up all the data on an external drive, added the two new drives, and tried setting up the same thing but it ran for 3 days without completing. For some reason if you use 3-4 drives it shows a progress bar but if you use 5-6 it doesn't. I had no idea if it was progressing but 3 days felt like way too long to wait so I canceled it and I'm looking for alternative solutions.
I read up on fake raid and how most people recommend just using software raid instead but win10 pro doesn't offer raid 5 in disk management. I set up a striped volume with plans of relying on my weekly backups but that feels like too much of a compromise. Is there a go-to program for software raid 5? Or does anyone have any other suggestions?
All suggestions are much appreciated
Forever yours,
Araphen
I hope this forum post finds you well. I recently upgraded from 4 to 6 4TB drives for my plex server. They're all hooked up directly to my motherboard and I was using fake raid for raid 5 for the 4 drives which took about 18 hours to initialize. I backed up all the data on an external drive, added the two new drives, and tried setting up the same thing but it ran for 3 days without completing. For some reason if you use 3-4 drives it shows a progress bar but if you use 5-6 it doesn't. I had no idea if it was progressing but 3 days felt like way too long to wait so I canceled it and I'm looking for alternative solutions.
I read up on fake raid and how most people recommend just using software raid instead but win10 pro doesn't offer raid 5 in disk management. I set up a striped volume with plans of relying on my weekly backups but that feels like too much of a compromise. Is there a go-to program for software raid 5? Or does anyone have any other suggestions?
All suggestions are much appreciated
Forever yours,
Araphen