02-28-2020, 03:37 PM
Really need help please, new to RAID, got a Qnap TS-653D on order which I will have 4x 10tb red plus from start, another 2 the same later when I have the money.
90% of this NAS will be for Plex, 2-3 users running 720 and/or 1080 same time. The NAS will be running SABnzbd and Sonarr/Radarr 24/7, and apart from that I will not touch it.
Been told raid 5, 6 or 10, most say 10 as faster, but no idea how faster and if the 5 or 6 is fast enough. Going down to 50% capacity total on raid 10 don’t bother me. I’m edging towards 10 as so many people have said don’t do raid 5 cause parity will take over a day to fix the broken drive and often makes others fail same time so I lose the lot. I will have around 4-5000 movies, several hundred tv series and a few hundred thousand songs. Please let me know what’s best, cloud back ups is a no cause of size needed, and external back up would cost too much and would need several, so any and all backups would be within the NAS,
90% of this NAS will be for Plex, 2-3 users running 720 and/or 1080 same time. The NAS will be running SABnzbd and Sonarr/Radarr 24/7, and apart from that I will not touch it.
Been told raid 5, 6 or 10, most say 10 as faster, but no idea how faster and if the 5 or 6 is fast enough. Going down to 50% capacity total on raid 10 don’t bother me. I’m edging towards 10 as so many people have said don’t do raid 5 cause parity will take over a day to fix the broken drive and often makes others fail same time so I lose the lot. I will have around 4-5000 movies, several hundred tv series and a few hundred thousand songs. Please let me know what’s best, cloud back ups is a no cause of size needed, and external back up would cost too much and would need several, so any and all backups would be within the NAS,