I am planning on putting together a storage server primarily used for images of PC's. I wanted your opinions on the best way to go about setting up one or more RAID sets. I want to go with RAID 6 and possibly RAID 60. I will list the hardware at my disposal for this so you can point me in the right direction or offer suggestions. Thank you for any help.
Motherboard-Asus P8C WS
CPU-Xeon E3-1275 V2
Memory-Kingston 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1600
RAID Card-MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e
RAID Hard Drives-WD 3TB Red x24
(I have 24 on hand right now but I do not need that much storage to start off so it is not necessary to use them all for this just wanted to add that they are there.)
My initial plan was for a massive RAID 60 with all of them. I now think doing 2 independent RAID 6 would be best and have one as the primary use and the second as the backup set. I chose RAID 6 because of the 2 parity disks instead of RAID 5 single parity disk. I could also do 2 RAID 6 arrays with 10 each and then have 4 for spare.
Motherboard-Asus P8C WS
CPU-Xeon E3-1275 V2
Memory-Kingston 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1600
RAID Card-MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e
RAID Hard Drives-WD 3TB Red x24
(I have 24 on hand right now but I do not need that much storage to start off so it is not necessary to use them all for this just wanted to add that they are there.)
My initial plan was for a massive RAID 60 with all of them. I now think doing 2 independent RAID 6 would be best and have one as the primary use and the second as the backup set. I chose RAID 6 because of the 2 parity disks instead of RAID 5 single parity disk. I could also do 2 RAID 6 arrays with 10 each and then have 4 for spare.