Message from @Goz3rr
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What kind of raid level?
I use FreeNAS w/raidz2
6 3tb wd reds
Then ECC brings a benefit
But only because of the raidz2
Everything else that you said has 0 benefits from ECC
yeah I have to. so many lifehacker tier guides said "just pick up old pc parts and smash them together" and FreeNAS forums were very clear about how important ECC is
Data storage is directly affected by raid z2, Plex is not
im still not sure about what to run on my NAS
if your memory is fucky with z raid it's bye bye
ZFS, unRAID (XFS), mergerfs + snapraid
In my limited experience FreeNAS and zfs z2 has been good to me
4 disks, but i want to expand
ZFS can't expand with single disks
one hard drive already broke, it sent a mail, resilvering was a breeze
How many disks do you want to have?
i have 8 bays
How large are the single disks going to be?
Mh that's too large for raid6
i don't want to run hardware raid
Does your NAS have reliable external backups?
Or are you using raid as a backup? (don't)
there's nothing on there
there's 4 unpartitioned disks in it
and a 500GB 970 evo plus
How much reliability do you need?
And do you rather read or rather write?
(you can see selecting a raid level is science)
i was just going to put plex and a torrent client on it
i don't buy into the raid5 is broken meme either
So if it crashes for a day or two and is barely accessible during restore, it's not a big deal?
single parity disk is fine for me right now
and 3 data disks for 24TB effective
Then go Raid6 anyway
raid6 is two parity disks
Yes believe me
I've had the second disk failing during a restore way too often in my life
if i go raid6 with 4 disks i might as well go raid10