Kris850
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I'm upgrading from (2) 5T Western Digital My Passport external hard drives for MAC (one is a main the other a CC backup) to a RAID 5 system. I watched Steve's Lightroom # 1 video. He uses a Thunderbay product from OWC. I am asking for those using a RAID 5 system are you using SSD or HHD (hard drive). After talking with a sales rep from OWC, I'm looking at the OWC Thunderbay 4 with Thunderbolt 3 connection with 16T of storage. 16T makes ~12T on the RAID 5. Going SSD vs Hard drive on the RAID 5 is a lot bucks. So... I was wondering about performance for the price, Your thoughts? Next question, how are you backing up your RAID 5 system? I will use BackBlaze for cloud storage and I think the OWC Mercury Elite Pro dual 3 port 24T and use RAID 1 as my backup to the RAID 5. That setup will give me a total of 2 backups + 1 virtual for the RAID 5.