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

How many disks, how many reliable external backups? @Goz3rr

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?

8TB

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

same effective space and a way better solution

`Or are you using raid as a backup? (don't)`
w-what senpai

I thought you want to expand to 8 disks though

i do

@futuremoe yes raid is NOT a backup

Once you have 8 disks, Raid6 is nicer than 10

Except for writing speed

when you say you had second disks fail during rebuild