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Hi All,
I've recently invested in my first NAS. Prior to this I have been running basic independent disks inside a server case. I have the following hard drives:
6 x 8TB
2 x 6TB
I have around 40TB of data. I was planning to leave the 6TB drives in the PC and populate the NAS with the 8TB drives. Now, 4 of those 8TB drives are new, the others have data on them. I was looking to use SHR to protect against a single drive failure. I've just lost a 5TB red so figured it would be a good idea to have some element of protection. I am aware that this is not a backup, just some protection. Non of this data is precious, or mission critical, it would just be a pain to download it all again. With this in mind, would SHR be a good solution or just "Basic"? The downsides of SHR for me are the really long build, expansion and rebuild times, not to mention the risk of a 2nd disk failing during rebuild and all 40TB being lost.
The pluses of Basicare that I can use 100% of the space, I can download the 8TB quicker than I can rebuild SHR and there is no initial build time.
In short, is SHR overkill for Plex media or worth the "downsides"?
I've recently invested in my first NAS. Prior to this I have been running basic independent disks inside a server case. I have the following hard drives:
6 x 8TB
2 x 6TB
I have around 40TB of data. I was planning to leave the 6TB drives in the PC and populate the NAS with the 8TB drives. Now, 4 of those 8TB drives are new, the others have data on them. I was looking to use SHR to protect against a single drive failure. I've just lost a 5TB red so figured it would be a good idea to have some element of protection. I am aware that this is not a backup, just some protection. Non of this data is precious, or mission critical, it would just be a pain to download it all again. With this in mind, would SHR be a good solution or just "Basic"? The downsides of SHR for me are the really long build, expansion and rebuild times, not to mention the risk of a 2nd disk failing during rebuild and all 40TB being lost.
The pluses of Basicare that I can use 100% of the space, I can download the 8TB quicker than I can rebuild SHR and there is no initial build time.
In short, is SHR overkill for Plex media or worth the "downsides"?
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