NAS104 Raid decision? Xraid vs Raid 10 etc #24296869

offbyone wrote:

This seems to be at the crux of my next step. 48 hours actually was the time to build the raid 6. This concerns me very much as well as the support people telling me different things. Some have said this is absolutely not normal and the latest says it is. I don't get the sense that the raid implementations other than xraid have been optimized. It also makes me wonder how tested they are. Not many people seem to be using them on the 104 at least.

The support people aren't really familiar with people running RAID 6 on RN104, because, well, almost nobody does. In the market segment where the RN104 resides, capacity per dollar is of more interest than maximum redundancy.

The RAID implementation on the RN104 is exactly the same as the one used in every other ReadyNASOS-running system uses. There is no "optimizing" to do. Since you're capped at 100Mbit by your network equipment, RAID 6 isn't going to slow you down anyway.