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Originally Posted by AstroViking
I have a 4-drive Qnap array from about 2010 or so. It's slow, no longer supported, but continues to work well enough for what I want. With 4 * 3TB drives in a RAID5 arrangement I have about 8.5TB of available space and I've never managed to fill it.
If/when you do come to buying the disks, be careful of the magnetic recording method. (Assuming you go with spinning platters.)
The SMR (Shingled Magnetic R-something) is glacially slow due to the way the drive writes the data. Avoid them at all costs and only by the CMR drives.
The WD 'Red' NAS-rated drives under 3TB are SMR and CMR in the larger capacities. (I found out the hard way when one of my 3TB 'Red' drives died and had to to some serious research to find out which new drive was OK.)
If you're going with SSD, then this is totally irrelevant to you. (Just be aware that SSD drives have a finite number of write cycles before they kick the bucket.)
Cheers,
V
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Thanks for the heads up Steve. I'm still undecided on the medium I'm going to use. I'm thinking I'll probably need to go with Spinning platter, unless the price of SSD's comes down dramatically, it'll end up being a price based decision. I don't need a huge amount of speed for the NAS, apart from media, I intend to bring projects locally to my processing machine to work on them., before spitting them back to the NAS once i'm done.
I'm looking at dumping a fair amount of storage into this NAS, somewhere in the order of 20+TB. I've nearly filled 2TB in the last 6 months, not to mention the several TB I have lying around from the years gone by.