I'm not sure if this question properly belongs here or in the hardware forum. But: I'm using my box mainly for local media/file storage and similar stuff for a small number of users--not running VMs (well, I have one small VM running PiHole, but I mean I'm not using it to back enterprise-level database servers or anything). In my current setup, I have four 4TB WD Red drives set up as two twin mirrors, for a total of 8TB of storage.
I'm not in urgent need of more space, but I probably will need to expand things in the medium-term future, and I see that Amazon currently has the 6TB Seagate Iron Wolf 7200 RPM drives for $148. This seems pretty good to me, and I thought it might make sense to consider doing something with these.
Would a three-drive RAID Z/1 setup make sense for my needs? This would give around 12 TB of storage. A four-drive setup would seem like overkill for me (I do have several backups of the entire NAS). Is there something else I should consider? Poking around this does look like a good price, but maybe there's something else I'm missing. Also, if I did this, what should I do with the existing drives--can I reconfigure them into something functional, or would it end up slowing things down too much? I do have the space in my box for eight drives.
I'm not in urgent need of more space, but I probably will need to expand things in the medium-term future, and I see that Amazon currently has the 6TB Seagate Iron Wolf 7200 RPM drives for $148. This seems pretty good to me, and I thought it might make sense to consider doing something with these.
Would a three-drive RAID Z/1 setup make sense for my needs? This would give around 12 TB of storage. A four-drive setup would seem like overkill for me (I do have several backups of the entire NAS). Is there something else I should consider? Poking around this does look like a good price, but maybe there's something else I'm missing. Also, if I did this, what should I do with the existing drives--can I reconfigure them into something functional, or would it end up slowing things down too much? I do have the space in my box for eight drives.