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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