Hi all,
I am using QuTS on TS-855. I have a raid 5 with 3x16TB and I am expanding with 3x18TB. What is my best option? Note I have 2 NVMEs for system pool. SATA SSDs and NVME for cache already.
I am seeing the options for 'Create and Add new raid group" so that is 2 raid 5's with a 3x18T raid and 3x16TB raid 5 with stripe. This makes another raid 5, but I am not sure if the end result is a raid 50. Is it? It says my capacity will end up at 59.99TB so it is utilizing the 18TB drives fully I think.
or
Add to existing Raid Group. Here I can choose raid 5 or 6 or TP. Raid 5 gives 71.68TB , Raid 6 gives 56.25 TB.
Are the extra 6TBs from the 3x18TB lost in these these cases?
Which is the best option to not waste the extra capacity of the 18TB drives and be fast?
Will that raid 6 and raid 50 (?) be much faster than the raid 5 expansion?
In my case with the different drives is raid 50 better than raid 6?
This is just a home NAS with my data, pics, vid, movies for remote use, AI for photo recognition, etc with future plans to host my own web site and small game etc.
Thanks in advance.
I am using QuTS on TS-855. I have a raid 5 with 3x16TB and I am expanding with 3x18TB. What is my best option? Note I have 2 NVMEs for system pool. SATA SSDs and NVME for cache already.
I am seeing the options for 'Create and Add new raid group" so that is 2 raid 5's with a 3x18T raid and 3x16TB raid 5 with stripe. This makes another raid 5, but I am not sure if the end result is a raid 50. Is it? It says my capacity will end up at 59.99TB so it is utilizing the 18TB drives fully I think.
or
Add to existing Raid Group. Here I can choose raid 5 or 6 or TP. Raid 5 gives 71.68TB , Raid 6 gives 56.25 TB.
Are the extra 6TBs from the 3x18TB lost in these these cases?
Which is the best option to not waste the extra capacity of the 18TB drives and be fast?
Will that raid 6 and raid 50 (?) be much faster than the raid 5 expansion?
In my case with the different drives is raid 50 better than raid 6?
This is just a home NAS with my data, pics, vid, movies for remote use, AI for photo recognition, etc with future plans to host my own web site and small game etc.
Thanks in advance.