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I have a Synology 412+ and 4 4 TB WD Rec drives on their way to me. I have not used RAID before on my personal computers. From my reading, RAID 5 seems to be the best choice for the 4 drive system. A balance of redundancy and performance.
Synology seems to have their own Hybrid RAID, but the big advantage cited is the ability to use drives of differing sizes and that is not the case for me in this instance. So the hardware RAiD 5 seems like the best choice.
Any differing opinions on this?
For choosing the NAS, I found that the main choices were build your own with FreeNAS (I have an old WHS machine I did that for), Synology and QNAP. I did not want to mess around with learning FreeNAS and online opinions about QNAP and Synology were pretty balanced. In terms of available additional packages, x86 seemed like the best option. For a pure file server, ARm seemed fine, but with all that storage, I figured why not experiment with the other packages available?
One of the main uses will be the target drive for an iTunes server. No NAS has a clean implementation of Homesharing. WHS that also runs iTunes seems to be one option but I don't want to have to use a tower.
Michael
Synology seems to have their own Hybrid RAID, but the big advantage cited is the ability to use drives of differing sizes and that is not the case for me in this instance. So the hardware RAiD 5 seems like the best choice.
Any differing opinions on this?
For choosing the NAS, I found that the main choices were build your own with FreeNAS (I have an old WHS machine I did that for), Synology and QNAP. I did not want to mess around with learning FreeNAS and online opinions about QNAP and Synology were pretty balanced. In terms of available additional packages, x86 seemed like the best option. For a pure file server, ARm seemed fine, but with all that storage, I figured why not experiment with the other packages available?
One of the main uses will be the target drive for an iTunes server. No NAS has a clean implementation of Homesharing. WHS that also runs iTunes seems to be one option but I don't want to have to use a tower.
Michael