Which raid for TS-673 as business file server

[winderic]

Hi all, bought a TS-673 with 4x 3TB Wd red. It will mainly be used as file server for internal and external access. Should I go with raid 5, 6 or 10? The extra 2 bays are empty for now, might add more when space require. Thanks.

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[dolbyman]

A Raid5 should be fine ...more worried about "external" file server

are we talking about a vpn connection or are you planning expose a busness nas to the wild wild web?

[winderic]

A Raid5 should be fine ...more worried about "external" file server

are we talking about a vpn connection or are you planning expose a busness nas to the wild wild web?

No vpn connection for now but will setup once when ready and users are happy with it.
I did some digging, looks like raid 10 recover quicker even thought have less space and read faster.

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[dolbyman]

if you want two drives redundancy, go with raid6 ..also better overall redundancy as it has 2 guaranteed drive failures

with 4 drives it's 50% penalty though

[storageman]

Also you can't "easily" expand RAID 10

[Trexx]

I would agree that for general file server usage, Raid-5 or 6 is your better option. Even at enterprise class environments with 100's of drives, they don't use RAID-10 it is Raid-6.