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I am planning on building a NAS Box and I don't know what RAID would be best? I would have about 4TB+. Also what are some great hard drives for a NAS that are not too experience like WD Red?

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Raid 5 maybe

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It depends on your need of storage. Nas is already form of back up so putting HDDs in raid will only increase the speed of the storage or realizability. Have a look at this video linus made:



It should help you decide. Myself have 2ssd in raid which daily back ups to 2hdd raid and 2nd back up to another hdd.

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If you want 4TB of space why use RAID when you can get 4TB drives?

Bare in mind if you want a setup like RAID 5 you're going to be losing a drive in parity.

 

Are you going to be using ECC memory to avoid data corruption?

Do you want a next gen filesystem like ReFS/BTRFS or do you just want standard NTFS/EXT4?

Are you wanting to run Windows, Linux, or a Nas software like FreeNAS?

 

As far as good drives, would be WD Red's, WD Red Pro's, HGST Ultrastar and Seagate Enterprise.

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I am planning on building a NAS Box and I don't know what RAID would be best? I would have about 4TB+. Also what are some great hard drives for a NAS that are not too experience like WD Red?

 

 

Hey BigBig5,
 
It depends on how much redundancy and how many drives you would like to have in your setup. As the guys mentioned, RAID5 is a good choice for it provides both speed boost and redundancy for 3+ drives setups. Another option is to do RAID10 with four drives for better speed and redundancy or a simple 2-drive RAID1 just for the redundancy.
 
WD Red are indeed good drives for that purpose as they are NAS/RAID class drives and as such have additional features in the firmware and the tuning that enable them to work smoother, safer and generally better in NAS/RAID environments. Whichever drive you choose, I would recommend getting NAS/RAID class ones for better safety and performance. 
 
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Hey BigBig5,
 
It depends on how much redundancy and how many drives you would like to have in your setup. As the guys mentioned, RAID5 is a good choice for it provides both speed boost and redundancy for 3+ drives setups. Another option is to do RAID10 with four drives for better speed and redundancy or a simple 2-drive RAID1 just for the redundancy.
 
WD Red are indeed good drives for that purpose as they are NAS/RAID class drives and as such have additional features in the firmware and the tuning that enable them to work smoother, safer and generally better in NAS/RAID environments. Whichever drive you choose, I would recommend getting NAS/RAID class ones for better safety and performance. 
 
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Thanks I will get a controller with RAID 1 and 10. And get 2 Reds for now and upgrade them when needed.

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Thanks I will get a controller with RAID 1 and 10. And get 2 Reds for now and upgrade them when needed.

 

 

Sounds like a good plan. I would say that the motherboard's RAID controller would be enough for 3-4 drives (unless you are planning to create a larger pool). If your motherboard supports RAID, you can leave the RAID controller card for a late point when it is needed and push your money for something else, making your system more stable, secure and more powerful. :)
 
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