Works well and notifies you (by email, if configured) when the array is degraded.Startech is an ISO 9001 certified company so the quality should be good. I bought a Startech PEXSAT34RH PCI-e RAID controller for less than £40, on Ebay, for an unused 'open box' item. In the end I decided to go for the hardware RAID solution. Now to the questions, as I said I'm using Windows 10 RAID 1 with the drives configured as dynamic disks, would it actually be better to be using Windows 'Storage Spaces' instead? Or, perhaps, it would be better again to buy one of these (available for ~£65 from most suppliers) and configure a relatively inexpensive hardware RAID 1? They got there in the end, but it is a bit disconcerting that it takes so long and I'm not sure what the status would be if there was a drive failure while the drives were resyncing. Now here is the problem, if indeed it is a problem, having moved the PC/NAS the two drives have taken the best part of a week to resync. Well, with the cold weather I have decided to bring the PC/NAS into the main house as the hard drives were often running too cold. The NAS side of things has 2x4TB WD Reds running in RAID 1 configuration with backup to a separate machine on the network. As people here may (or may not) recall, earlier in the year, I re-purposed a low energy consumption PC to be a combined PC, for use in the garage and a NAS for data storage/media server.
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