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Which Raid Should I Go For; 5, 6 or SHR? - Enquiries - 02-28-2020
Hi there. I am finding your tutorials really helpful for a beginner!. I have just bought a Synology DS1520+ with five 8TB Seagate Pro Iron Wolf Hard Disks.
It is basically just my wife and myself using this NAS and I moved to using NAS as I have an array of external disks, two of which failed along with their back up. So I thought it time to grow up!
My wife and I want to share documents, but I also want to access my photo library using Lightroom which is notorious for being slow if the images are not on the same drive. So read/write speed is important above capacity and cost.
I do also like the idea of SHR and the option of adding larger disks later on, but after my recent experience redundancy is also very important.
Obviously I realise that my NAS is not a back up and will have external back up, offsite and in the cloud for key documents.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
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Which Raid Should I Go For; 5, 6 or SHR? - ed - 01-27-2021
The performance will be very similar to any RAID you choose. I would choose SHR1 for one drive redundancy or if you want to feel safer you can go for SHR2 with 2 drive redundancy.This will be useful to have an option to replace a few drives with bigger size later on.I hope this helps.