Thoughts on RAID hardware controller please

[kirkster]

I have a ton of photos and video and want to build a RAID array of 8TB disks. I will boot off of a 500GB primary SSD and point all storage at the RAID array. Anyone got any thoughts on doing that?

Would appreciate you having direct experience of the RAID controller you spec.
Must support multi disk RAID.

Thanks.

 

[kirkster]

Storage is for video and photos and general documents. I have 10 TB's of stuff.
RAID 6 or 10 is what I was thinking.
I have a Synology DS217+ already on my network. I do not think it would have the performance and this RAID is for the local machine.
Software RAID a possibility.... I discounted it because of speed?