Raid Q

[ZMaNFaRLee]

Ok I ma getting closer to getting all the materials I need for my NAS (Have 4x 8tb Shuckable WD easy drives with red serials).

I looked up raid solutions a little while ago and I can't remember if things changed or not. My NAS will be for media and pics (Pics will have extra backup). So it's not critical but I like the fail safe of raid.

Quesiton is is Riad 5 good? Looks like I get a little over 20tb with that. For some reason I thought I saw my storage would be around 15tb after raid? Am I missing something?

 

[Jailer]

Depends on your risk tolerance. Personally i wouldnt be comfortable with just one drive redundacy but thats just me.

 

[Zredwire]

Raid5 is not really viable anymore. If your hard drives are larger then 1TB your asking for heartache with Raid5. You can do a quick Google search and find out why. Anyway I would recommend Raid Z2 or Mirror VDEV's with 4 drives. With Raid Z2 or Mirrors your storage space would be close to 15TB.