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Hi there,

I'm a videographer/Photographer, incredibly lost and overwhelmed by the options in the DAS space.

I want to just bite the bullet and get a terra master D5-300, put x5 6tb drives in it, and run it as raid5. But I'm getting nervous thinking the price point is too good to be true. If a drive did fail, I'm nervous to trust their raid5 rebuild and also am nervous about how reliable their customer support it. If I go this route, with the money I'll save, I'll buy an 18tb G-drive (or similar) as a backup, so no matter what I'm safe.

Alternatively, I could bite the bullet and get a G-raid shuttle, most likely the 24tb version at raid5. OR I could do OWC thunderbay4, but softraid makes me nervous. Or could go the 2-bay route with a g-raid 36tb/Lacie 2big and run it as raid1. (Could also do terrmaster 2bay)

I'm looking for advice on how reliable terra master is and what the raid5 risk is compared to lets say the g-raid shuttle.

Last question. If I did go a 2bay route, lets say with terramaster, and ran it as Raid1 with x2 18tb drives. How difficult/unrealistic is it to rebuild an entire 18tb drive should one fail. And if one fails, that doesn't matter anyways right since I already have an entire copy? I could make do with 18tb of available space need be. Would prefer more space though.

thank you so much for your help in advanced.

Terramaster just like other DAS or NAS brands use the same RAID software. Recovering either of them would make no difference.
If you get something with hardware RAID, you will more likely lose your data if the controller fails. Simply because no RAID data is stored on the drives themself.
RAID1 will surely recover faster than RAID5. But both will recover.
The choice here is about speed and capacity.

Also, consider disasters like flood/fire/theft.


I hope this helps.