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Velocio in reply to @NotThamesWater

Is RAID still a thing for home NAS setups? I like redundancy and backups.

ZFS is the new thing, and people tend to run http://www.freenas.org/ and build their own system.

But... foregoing that, because it needs a fairly hefty build with a lot of RAM, then any QNAP will do and just use RAID6 if you have lots of drives, or RAID5 if you only a few drives.

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hamrack in reply to @Velocio

@TW If it's just a home storage server the ram requirements aren't too bad. FreeNAS recommend 1GB of ECC RAM Per 1TB of storage with an 8GB minimum, but I'm getting by with 4GB for 10TB of storage. You just won't be able to run all sorts of bells and whistles.

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Velocio in reply to @hamrack

Yeah, maybe it was just me. I have 24TB of disk, and that dictates RAM needs that change the parameters of everything else.

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