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General Maximus · 28-05-2014, 08:37

I currently have two NAS servers which contain a single 3TB drive and I have run out of space so I am looking to replace them with something like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...pf_rd_i=468294

My question is this:

I defo want to use raid 5 because I'll cry if a hdd fails and I lose everything but I would like to know if there is a way that I can still merge 3 drives together to create one volume like in raid 0 so I just see one big 12TB drive? I will be using the drive as a media server so I am assuming that the devices which view the media will just list the folders regardless of which drive they are on. From my perspective in terms of managing the data I don't want to have to worry about running out of space on a particular drive and then have to start putting the same type of content onto another drive. I would rather have one big 12TB volume and use as much space as I want to. As an example, say I have catergory a, b and c on there and had a drive for each because there are 3 categories, I might only have 500gb of category a but 6TB of category b and I don't want to have to have one drive full of category b and then have it spill onto another drive as well. If I had one big 12TB volume I could just have a folder for each and they would take up as much space as they needed to without me having to worry about how I organise the data.

28-05-2014, 08:37	#1
General Maximus Ran Away Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln Services: phone + 1gbit BB + SkyQ Posts: 11,021	The right raid array for NAS I currently have two NAS servers which contain a single 3TB drive and I have run out of space so I am looking to replace them with something like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...pf_rd_i=468294 My question is this: I defo want to use raid 5 because I'll cry if a hdd fails and I lose everything but I would like to know if there is a way that I can still merge 3 drives together to create one volume like in raid 0 so I just see one big 12TB drive? I will be using the drive as a media server so I am assuming that the devices which view the media will just list the folders regardless of which drive they are on. From my perspective in terms of managing the data I don't want to have to worry about running out of space on a particular drive and then have to start putting the same type of content onto another drive. I would rather have one big 12TB volume and use as much space as I want to. As an example, say I have catergory a, b and c on there and had a drive for each because there are 3 categories, I might only have 500gb of category a but 6TB of category b and I don't want to have to have one drive full of category b and then have it spill onto another drive as well. If I had one big 12TB volume I could just have a folder for each and they would take up as much space as they needed to without me having to worry about how I organise the data.