Question about building a NAS

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So I have a 10 bay Asustor NAS. It is full with 8TB drives. My plan is to buy six 14TB drives and go with Raid 6 at first.

Do I have the ability to just add a 7th drive down the road? Or even fill the last of the drive bays when I want to do so?
 
You can add drive to drive 6 (but the smallest drive size of a current pool can determine what size they can be)

Did you look at option like ZFS instead of RAID 6 ?

Would you need automatic redundancy via raid at all could also be a question to ask one self, if what is wanted is only the backuping part and not the ability to stay online for critical application or clients in case of a drive failure.
 
LukeTbk said:
You can add drive to drive 6 (but the smallest drive size of a current pool can determine what size they can be)

Did you look at option like ZFS instead of RAID 6 ?

Would you need automatic redundancy via raid at all could also be a question to ask one self, if what is wanted is only the backuping part and not the ability to stay online for critical application or clients in case of a drive failure.
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This is my plex server, etc. I would eventually fill it with ten 14TB drives. Largest my NAS can take.

I have a Windows 11 desktop with 12 Hard drives of various sizes using drivepool as my backup to the NAS currently.

I just can't afford to buy all 10 right now
 
For something like a Plex drive (where it can go down without causing any problem, no need for any fast read speed during operation but can be nice during large backup), I am not sure if I would use something like RAID.

Have you decided if you will go with an OS branch specialized for that usage (like FreeNas) or just regular Linux ? In both case I would read about ZFS if I would want redundancy, but would keep in mind that an automated daily backup is really easy to setup on those OS if I want backup without having any of the possible raid problem.

Ultra simple drivepool like you use right now could be enough for you need that what I use on my plex server, simple UnionFS, I cannot download faster the a single drive write speed and even at high bit rate a regular modern HDD 80-200MB/s read speed is a lot, a movie bitrate of 10 MB/s (80 mbs) being a very large amount.

Depend if you need more than that (2 union, daily or hourly incremental backup), maybe you would better of with RAID 6 and so on for your need, but I would not assume so.
 
jordan12 said:
This is my plex server, etc. I would eventually fill it with ten 14TB drives. Largest my NAS can take.

I have a Windows 11 desktop with 12 Hard drives of various sizes using drivepool as my backup to the NAS currently.

I just can't afford to buy all 10 right now
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Google it. It can probably take bigger drives even if they aren't "supported."
 
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