Hey everyone. So I’m trying to decide which RAID should I choose for my 6trays NAS. I have 4 x 16TB HDDs, 1x8TB HDD and another one 500GB ssd that I will use as a containers’ docker folder usage. I will be using the NAS to store Media files (movies, tv series, photos, music etc.) and also documents. Currently I have the 2 16tb as RAID 1 that only the Media files are stored and I am in between either creating another RAID 1 with the remaining 2 16Tbs or adding them to the other 2 to create a RAID 5 and have a bigger storage pool Have you had any incident where 2 HDDs were lost-damaged simultaneously (as RAID 5 forgives loss of only 1 drive) or not?
In addition I was thinking of having the 8TB HDD as a standalone to backup the documents and maybe the photos and the docker setups.
Does this make sense to anyone that uses similar setup?
Thanks for your inputs!
RAID does not work today with any disks you may have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAwa8RI
.The only sane option is ZFS with zRAID1/2.
That video is about hardware RAID. Software RAID is still alive and well (e.g. mdadm).
I personally use BTRFS w/ RAID 1, and if I had OP’s setup, I’d probably do RAID 10. Just don’t use RAID 5/6 w/ BTRFS.
ZFS isn’t the only sane option.