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RAID5 drives or JBOD?

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Hi,

 

I am about to extending my pool with a new set of drives.

 

In the past I moved from drive bender to this because 1 drive died / got stuck and I wanted to take advantage of the Scanner.

 

So my current setup is a bunch of single disks and a RAID5 pool to prevent data loss of one drive, all added to one pool.

 

I am now asking myself if it is still clever with drivepool and the scanner in place to build a second RAID5 drive with the new drives and add it to the pool or to keep it as a bunch of disks and rely on the scanner?

 

Is there any advantage / disadvantage in using RAID5 for pooled drives or leaving them as a bunch of disks?

 

I don't want to duplicate stuff, because this would lead to heavy requirements. At the moment I am at about 20TB for my media library and I don't want to double the required space :D With the new disks I would now be able to move the data off the RAID and reset them as a bunch of disks. This is why I am asking.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Kind regs :)


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