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I am also working on building a new NAS, I didn't realize it was going to be so damned expensive though...

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    I am also working on building a new NAS, I didn't realize it was going to be so damned expensive though...

    Currently I am thinking of going for ZFS with six drives, four pure storage, one parity and one hot spare, I would also need another drive as a cold spare...

    I am interested in ZFS due to it's bitrot protection, I have already seen some of my photos affected by bitrot....

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      I am also working on building a new NAS, I didn't realize it was going to be so damned expensive though...

      Currently I am thinking of going for ZFS with six drives, four pure storage, one parity and one hot spare, I would also need another drive as a cold spare...

      I am interested in ZFS due to it's bitrot protection, I have already seen some of my photos affected by bitrot....

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      Don't bother with a hot spare. For household needs you're just spending money to have a drive that will always be on. If you set up your notifications and your array right, you can have plenty of time to order a replacement.

      I went RAIDZ2 both times (dual disk redundancy, any two can die and its all good). Had a few spewing warnings over the years, and just replaced them.

      Anywho, my data array is about 10 years old but earlier this year I relocated to bigger disks and less disks. ZFS is worth it.

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        Don't bother with a hot spare. For household needs you're just spending money to have a drive that will always be on. If you set up your notifications and your array right, you can have plenty of time to order a replacement.

        I went RAIDZ2 both times (dual disk redundancy, any two can die and its all good). Had a few spewing warnings over the years, and just replaced them.

        Anywho, my data array is about 10 years old but earlier this year I relocated to bigger disks and less disks. ZFS is worth it.

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        Interesting, I have to look into that, I am taking it slow, and will buy storage drives over a few months to spread the cost out, so I have time to think about it

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