I bought a Synology DS1010+ last month and put 5 2TB hard drives in it in RAID 5 configuration. Once I figured out that their torrent software had some bugs and turned it off, it has run like a charm. (The bugs are mentioned in their forum, but no resolution date.) It is not cheap at all. But when I looked at what it did and what I guessed my storage requirements would be in the next 5 years and what the cost of the alternatives was, I decided to buy it.
www.synology.com
This unit can be expanded up to 10 hard drives, 2TB each. I hope that will hold me for 5 years!
Remember with RAID5 you will lose 1 hard drive. So you want to minimize that loss. Previously I had WD My Book Studio 2TB drives in RAID1. Since there were 2 hard drives and I was mirroring them, I lost 50% of my drives. With the DS1010+, I am only losing 20%.
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I bought a Synology DS1010+ last month and put 5 2TB hard drives in it in RAID 5 configuration. Once I figured out that their torrent software had some bugs and turned it off, it has run like a charm. (The bugs are mentioned in their forum, but no resolution date.) It is not cheap at all. But when I looked at what it did and what I guessed my storage requirements would be in the next 5 years and what the cost of the alternatives was, I decided to buy it.
www.synology.com
This unit can be expanded up to 10 hard drives, 2TB each. I hope that will hold me for 5 years!
Remember with RAID5 you will lose 1 hard drive. So you want to minimize that loss. Previously I had WD My Book Studio 2TB drives in RAID1. Since there were 2 hard drives and I was mirroring them, I lost 50% of my drives. With the DS1010+, I am only losing 20%.
Good luck!