Help with Storage solution.

[Sniper Xls]

In a bit of a pickle here. I currently own a ASUSTOR 202TE 2 bay nas drive got two 2TB WD reds installed within this system and a back up connected to the NAS of a 4tb external drive. Been working well and does me fine however I am running out of storage. I currently run a Teamspeak server off this NAS and its used all the time. I am am looking at buying a new bigger 5 bay NAS and run Raid 5 and call it a day with the old server been sold or something.  Looking at a 5 bay NAS with 5 3TB wd reds. Question is do Synology allow for teamspeaks on their NAS? Also a 2nd option is getting two USB powered drives hooking them to my current NAS (4TB ) and use one for storage and one for the back up of that drive ? Ned some advice very 50/50 on all this while one is a cheap option the other seems to give me more storage and possible reliability?  

[b1uew01f]

1st of all, raid 5 is literally pointless, that's not just my opinion that's current industry practice. You take a fair performance hit for 1 drive of redundancy, if one drive fails you're on hopes and prayers that the intense work you put the other drives on during the rebuild wont kill another. If you like the raid 5 principle, go a minimum of raid 6, if not mirror.

 

TS3 I don't believe supports arm processors but you shouldn't be restricted beyond that as far as I'm aware. I haven't used synology so maybe that's for someone else to answer.

 

I can't recommend USB option, I can't imagine it would allow you to use the NAS functionality to its fullest with the additional drives and Ive had plenty experience with low quality usb enclosures. Theoretically shouldn't cause much of a performance hit though.

[Sniper Xls]

45 minutes ago, b1uew01f said:

1st of all, raid 5 is literally pointless, that's not just my opinion that's current industry practice. You take a fair performance hit for 1 drive of redundancy, if one drive fails you're on hopes and prayers that the intense work you put the other drives on during the rebuild wont kill another. If you like the raid 5 principle, go a minimum of raid 6, if not mirror.

 

TS3 I don't believe supports arm processors but you shouldn't be restricted beyond that as far as I'm aware. I haven't used synology so maybe that's for someone else to answer.

 

I can't recommend USB option, I can't imagine it would allow you to use the NAS functionality to its fullest with the additional drives and Ive had plenty experience with low quality usb enclosures. Theoretically shouldn't cause much of a performance hit though.

Thanks for the indepth reply. 

What type of performance hit would I be looking at in using raid 5? As I do not wish to use Raid 1 as I want max storage but some fault truculence please!

Teamspeak 3 is not the biggest issue I can still run the NAS off my network somewhere else in my home not an issue. 

USB is legit the last option if I cant find anything else that suits my needs.