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Yes, thats right. I wonder how you would do that in FreeNAS? I did some googling and either fond that you shouldn't do RAID5 nowadays or that you can only add another, same-sized vdev? And couldn't I e.g. add a 6TB drive later and then format 2x3TB drives as parity? I'm not sure if that's how it works, but intuitavly I would think so? Well there is this HAT, but its pretty expensive (would make the ARM system 120€ + ATX-PSU). So I might as well go for AMD. https://shop.maker-store.de/single-board-computer/zubehoer/weiteres-zubehoer/2808/rock-pi-4-sata-hat-quad Thanks for the HW recommendations!

Hi There, I'm thinking into building a NAS for my home archive (mostly pictures, videos, etc) for around 300-400€ (under 430$) with at least 6TB capacity and single redundancy drive. Pretty tight budget, i know. OS whise I looked into FreeNAS and OVM, but since I'd like to increase stroage size easily I turned to unRAID, so that I can chuck in one or two additional (maybe high capacity) drives later one. So for the system I've been thinking about an AM4 Motherboard (B450M or A320M) and some lowend Ryzen 3rd Gen or even AMD Athlon and 8GB RAM. (around 150$ + PSU, case) Questions: - what HDDs should I use? I thouhgt about 2x4GB in RAID1 or 3X3GB or 4x2GB with single parity drive each. The later two seem more resonable to me though, since I'm only getting 4TB out of the first config. - Is the systrem spec reasonable or would you suggest somethiong else? Idealy I would like to have room for a OpenVPN Server as well (so can connect from my mobile). RAM should be upgradable. - any case recommendations with >=4x3,5" Drive Bays? Should be somewhat small Note: Due to the budget I also looked into an RPi4-based NAS, which would be limmeted by USB3 and to a maximum of 4 drives... Thanks in advance!