Who /Storage pro/ here?

you can get single disks bigger than that these days
i've had a 6TB raid in my desktop since 2010, and even at the time it wasn't particularly big, only spent AU$500 on the disks

>>60909976
what program are you using to check on your drive like that

>>60910037
Have you ever tried rebuilding a >4tb drive? Weekend job at best and seeing I got 3 2tb disks for ~300aud I think it was worth it.

How do I best do network storage like ultra fast like I want it to be like direct access

>>60910063
>3*2TB
>6TB space
you're not using RAID0, are you?

>>60910247
Probably just a JBOD, it's a bit safer than RAID 0.

>>60910247
RAID5.

>>60910176
Most NAS devices come with dual nics and teaming options. All you need is a managed switch and you can enjoy a 2GB link.

>>60910057
looks like setttings in gnome to me.

>>60910456
>RAID5.
are you using BTRFS, then?
normally a 3*2TB RAID5 will be 4TB of space, but BTRFS handles things differently

>>60910456
> teaming
> managed switch
Eh. Every major OS have a switch-independent mode.

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>>60910477
I think you're confusing RAID5 with RAID4, there's no parity disk in 5.

>>60909976
>6TB
>storage pro
oh sweet summer child

>>60910516
there's no parity /disk/, but there is a disk worth of partity, striped across all component disks
the usable space of raid5 is n-1, same as raid4

btrfs is different in that it can mix different raid levels within the same volume, and to do that it allocates 1GB chunks at a time, with their own raid levels
the available space will look like all the disks when the disk is empty, but if you fill it up with raid5 chunks, then you will only get 4TB of data onto the volume, same as normal whole-volume raid5

>>60910544
-- put simply, btrfs's total volume size does not take redundancy (partity/mirrors) into account, as it's not fixed

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>>60909976

2x4tb hybrid drives in raid0 for games
6x4tb nas drives in raidz1 for 'media'

>>60910797
>6 drives with only 1 redundancy

Living on the edge. But to be fair, RAID5 bashing is pretty overblown, it's perfectly reasonable for home use, it's not like you'll lose money from having to restore from backup if your array fails.