4 × 14 TB in RAID 0

Usable space and the risk of striping for 4 drives of 14 TB each.

4 × 14 TB drives in RAID 0 give 56 TB of usable space, which Windows shows as 50.9 TB. All of it is usable, and none of it is protected. If any one of the drives fails, everything on the array is lost.
TB

Size printed on the drive label. Different sizes? The array uses the smallest one for every drive.

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MB/s

Typical hard drive: 100–200 MB/s with no other load. SSD: 400 MB/s or more.

From the drive datasheet. It is a worst-case spec, so real drives usually do better.

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56TB usable

Array healthy
Your data Parity or mirror copy Failed drive Click a drive to make it fail.
Drawing4 × 14 TB in RAID 0
Raw56 TB
Efficiency100%

Drives that can fail

Rebuild of one drive

Read error during rebuild

Checks for this setup

The same drives in every RAID level

4 drives of 14 TB each.

LevelUsableEfficiencyDrives that can failRebuildRead error in rebuild
56 TB
100%
None
—
—
14 TB
25%
Any 3
25 h
Fixed by another copy
42 TB
75%
Any 1
25 h
29%
28 TB
50%
Any 2
25 h
Fixed by parity
28 TB
50%
1 to 2
25 h
11%
Needs at least 6 drives
Needs at least 8 drives

4 × 14 TB in RAID 0: the numbers

Usable space56 TB (50.9 TB in Windows)
Raw space56 TB
Used for protectionNothing
Efficiency100%
Drives that can failNone

Rebuild

RAID 0 cannot rebuild. A failed drive means restoring all 56 TB from a backup. With a typical 1.5% annual failure rate per drive, the chance that one of the 4 drives fails within a year is 5.9%, and within three years 17%.

Our take

Use this only for data you can copy or download again: scratch space, caches, a game library. With the same 4 drives, RAID 10 gives 28 TB and survives a failed drive.

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Usable space in TB. Pick a cell for the full numbers.
Drives2 TB4 TB6 TB8 TB10 TB12 TB14 TB16 TB18 TB20 TB22 TB24 TB
2 drives4812162024283236404448
3 drives61218243036424854606672
4 drives81624324048566472808896