Getting rid of RAID 5 and getting some 4TB. Which ones?

[Carlitos714]

I currently have 8 x 2TB Samsung hd204ui (10.9TB total) and I am thinking of getting rid of them cuz housing 8 HDD is a pain in the a$$ and I reduced my computers to just 1.

I plan on keeping 1x 2TB hard drive to use as a back to my important stuff like documents, pics, kids movies, and music which is currently about 1.15 TB

I want to get 2 x 4TB hard drive and I am having a hard time deciding what drives to buy. My raid 5 array currently has about 8.58 TB being used and the majority of the space are movies (20-8tb a piece) but I delete the movies right after watching them so having 10.9 tb right now is an overkill for me.

I am looking for some 4 tb hard dive, but at this point I dont think I want to purchase enterprise drives cuz I simply can't afford them.

Please recommend me some reliable hard drives. I also want to eventually build a raid 10 array, but for now I am only looking for 2 x 4 tb hard drives.

Thank you

edit

maybe 3 x 3 tb WD reds?

 

[drescherjm]

I would still keep the 2TB drives and use them as backups especially if you use raid 0 or spanning where you are likely over a 5 year time period to lose your entire array.

 

[Carlitos714]

I would still keep the 2TB drives and use them as backups especially if you use raid 0 or spanning where you are likely over a 5 year time period to lose your entire array.

what keep 8 hdd? I really did not understand your post

 

[Moogoos]

Sell me 6 of your 2TB drives on the cheap and get the reds.

 

[Moogoos]

I just bought some 4TB reds so nm.

 

[Carlitos714]

Sell me 6 of your 2TB drives on the cheap and get the reds.

send me some of you 4tb reds on the cheap and ill send you some of my 2tb on the cheap?