If you are looking to just store data and use it for file access, Raid 5
should be valid. I would Use raid10 in cases where the disk activity would
be database related or VM related. (Or just that much R/W IO where Raid 5
Parity calculations are killing you)


On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 5:06 AM Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> I really need a way to backup and keep track of all the media files
> (photos, video etc) that I've created over the years.
> I've been looking at FreeNAS, OpenMediaVault and others.
>
> Any suggestions on drives?  (thinking a RAID 10  of 4   8TB drives)?
> File Systems? (ext4 or ZFS or?)
>
> Any other advice would be appreciated. (hardware, software etc)
> Phil W
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