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

did you ever scrub your arrays

hmmm

Nvm I misread

Did you ever = yes
How often = not enough

Still I wouldn't risk it

raidz3

or gtfo

yeah let me just throw 24 TB away

I'm still for Raid6 here

so I need another server to backup my server?
are synology servers as trash as I think they are?

synology is overpriced hardware with a shitty UI

Yep

but it works if you dont want to fuck around

yes and yes

And a shitty UI

i meant ui not io lol