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Dedicated hosting provider disk question
juan_attwood
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When a hosting provider advertises storage as 2x 4TB would this mean 8 TB or 4 TB (in a RAID setup)?
Thanks.
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It's got nothing to do with the provider. Available storage depends on how you set RAID up.
In RAID0, performance but risk of total data loss in case of any one drive failure, ~8TB.
In RAID1, mirror with bonus of resiliency at the cost of half space, ~4TB.
Ask your provider how this is going to be set up.
You mean after the OS is installed? Basically, they are providing 2 4 TB drives and I can configure it to be either 4 TB RAID 1 or 8 TB RAID 0?
After it’s kinda messy. Before or while is the answer.
Exactly. You can ask your provider to set RAID up during OS installation, or you can do it yourself if the server management panel supports it, or your server comes with KVMoIP to facilitate remote server management and OS installation.
Remember this though.
Raid (1 or else) is not backup.
I think I came across a provider before that
specifically doesn't allow RAID0 (I just can't remember which one), so technically it's not 100% accuratedoes not provide RAID0 support out of the box, so yeah that is 100% technically correct, regardless of my previous tongue-in-cheek comment ^^Nope, it doesn't work like that. Either you remember exactly which provider, with hard proof in form of links to their TOS mentioning that, or you don't get to "technically" dispute an actually correct statement with some insane bullshit that you invented yourself.
You can also go without raid and have 2x 4tb disks independent from each other
8TB total in RAID setup you will get 4TB
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/2712035/#Comment_2712035
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/2712170/#Comment_2712170
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/2712239/#Comment_2712239
Fine, mea culpa.