# I want to add a raid **URL:** \ **Category:** Node Operators\ **Tags:** raid, windows\ **Created:** [December 2, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/i-want-to-add-a-raid/16317 "2021-12-02T03:28:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/i-want-to-add-a-raid/16317/5 "2021-12-02T08:06:15Z")
Hello @CHILENITO, Welcome to the forum! It’s not recommended to use RAID, especially RAID5: > [@Hardware configuration and receiving mail with token](https://forum.storj.io/t/topic/6445/4): > > 8 disks is not few disks. You may think you’re running a small risk, but you’re absolutely not. Please read this: [The Latest - Whether RAID 5 is still safe in 2019 - Digistor Australia](https://www.digistor.com.au/the-latest/Whether-RAID-5-is-still-safe-in-2019/) If you don’t want to read the entire article, here is the most important image. With your setup in RAID5, you’re almost guaranteed to fail a rebuild. Have enterprise level HDD’s with lower URE rates? The image does look better, but still not great at all. It seems the P440 supports online … With todays disks it’s easy to lose a whole RAID volume during the rebuild because of bitrot. Please, avoid this problem by running an own node on each disk separately. Since all nodes behind the same /24 subnet of public IPs will share the ingress, so they would act as a RAID on a network level. If the disk would fail - you will lose only one node, but others will remain, so actually you will lose only part of the data. In case of RAID you likely will lose everything. You of course can configure a RAID10, it will be more robust, but it will be twice as expensive. Read more for pro and cons here: [RAID vs No RAID choice](https://forum.storj.io/t/raid-vs-no-raid-choice/6776) See also [How to add an additional drive? - Storj Docs](https://docs.storj.io/node/resources/faq/how-to-add-an-additional-drive) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.storj.io/t/i-want-to-add-a-raid/16317)._