On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 9:06 PM John Stoffel <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > snip > In any case, make sure you get NAS rated disks, either the newest WD > RED+ (or is it Blue?) In any case, make sure to NOT get the SMR > (Shingled Magnetic Recording) format drives. See previous threads in > this group, as well as the arstechnica.com discussion about it all > that they disk last month. Very informative. > > Personally, with regular hard disks, I still kinda think 4gb is the > sweet spot, since you can just mirror pairs of the disks and then > stripe across on top as needed. I like my storage simple, because > when (not if!) it all hits the fan, simple is easier to recover from. > Did you mean 4 TB or 4 GB as you wrote? (Somewhat of a difference I do believe.) Regards
