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My Plex server is running on a QNAP TVS-471 along with my Roon server and everything has worked quite well. It is configured how Roon recommended at the time with two HDDs configured in RAID1 and the other setup to be backed up to. I’m using WD Red 10 TB drives at the moment and, although not full yet, am trying to future-proof to the degree I can. Is anyone running larger drives, even up to something like the 26 TB WD Red Pro? If so, have you had any issues with performance?
WD 10TB is rated at 215 MB/sec
WD 26TB is rated at 265 MB/sec
While you gain that raw speed the other question as you fill this up is data protection.
If you were to run 4 drives in RAID 5 ( need 3 drive slots to start – so the DataVol is degraded while setting up the raid ), 4x26TB would give you about 70TB of total usable space when all 4 are in the RAID 5 volume.
Once in the RAID, while not a backup, any one drive can fail with no data loss , and then recover once the failed is replaced, as long as you replace it before a 2nd drive fails. (aka, keep a spare on hand)
It comes down to how you want to use it.
I have a TVS-1282 with 8x20TB in RAID 5. It’s a full image backup for my other NAS in RAID 6.
Thanks for your quick reply ChuckPa. Based on that it would seem that I shouldn’t expect any performance problems with those 26 TB drives. I certainly appreciate the suggestion of going to RAID 5, but as mentioned, I set this up initially to support my Roon server (which I’m still running) and added Plex after the fact. There’s no doubt that if I could probably make much better/efficient use of the hardware, but RAID 1 with the third HDD as backup was the suggested configuration for the Roon server when I set it up. Since everything is working fine I’m not really inclined to tinker with the configuration, just am looking to upgrade to hopefully more space than I’ll ever need (famous last words). Thanks again for your input!
No, the only pain is running a RAID rebuilt or a format and it takes ages. I have 12 22TB Western Digital Reds in RAID 6. Adding each drive took forever. But, the disk access pattern for Plex is more of a write once, read many times environment. If it was write intensive like SQL or other database applications, you would want mirror or some of the more complex RAID setups. With Plex on a RAID 5 or RAID 6, you get to take advantage of each drive accessing several parts of the media file at once, or parallel disk access. This is much faster for Plex as the workload is shared across all physical hard drives.
