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General Maximus · 28-05-2014, 10:57

that's good knews, I was under the impression that with raid 5 I would lose one of the 4tb drives to parity and the other 3 would remain seperate logical drives. If it stipes the data and it displays it as one logical drive like in raid 0 I'll be delighted because that is exactly what I wanted.

I know raid 1+0 is the ideal solution but I won't really gain capacity wise from that. As I mentioned above, I have already got 6TBs which are full and I wanted to double to 12TB. The only reason why I am going for a 16TB nas is because I thought I would lose 4tb to parity which still leaves me with the desired 12TB. If I did raid 1+0 I wouldn't really gain much because I would be back down to 8TB. I wanted to get the disk station and get rid of my two 3TB drives so it isn't as if it would be 8TB + 6TB (old drives) although I might consider keeping one of them.

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General Maximus Ran Away Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln Services: phone + 1gbit BB + SkyQ Posts: 11,021	Re: The right raid array for NAS that's good knews, I was under the impression that with raid 5 I would lose one of the 4tb drives to parity and the other 3 would remain seperate logical drives. If it stipes the data and it displays it as one logical drive like in raid 0 I'll be delighted because that is exactly what I wanted. I know raid 1+0 is the ideal solution but I won't really gain capacity wise from that. As I mentioned above, I have already got 6TBs which are full and I wanted to double to 12TB. The only reason why I am going for a 16TB nas is because I thought I would lose 4tb to parity which still leaves me with the desired 12TB. If I did raid 1+0 I wouldn't really gain much because I would be back down to 8TB. I wanted to get the disk station and get rid of my two 3TB drives so it isn't as if it would be 8TB + 6TB (old drives) although I might consider keeping one of them.