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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/cbjerg on 2023-09-01 10:08:31.

Hi guys - new here. I am in the proces of buying equipment to make my own NAS server I currently have an older 5 Bay Synology NAS, taht I haven’t used for years, because I started using Google Drive Enterprise, and then Dropbox. Since dbx is terminating their unlimited space plan, I figured I might as well start building my own storage.

I currently have 5 4TB WD Red disks from the Synology - 1 of which I seem to remember was having issues. I then went and bought a 20TB Seagate Exos, but missed the part about the largest drive only working as parity, so I need another if I am going to use the space. I was actually thinking of using the 4TB disks in an xfs pool, and buy a couple more 20TB disks down the line for ZRaid zfs. Does that make sense

I bough a license before even installing the server, thinking that I could do with the basic version, but I also have 3 NVME’s i would use as cache, so I am already over the 6 drive limit in basic. I just did not factor the cache drives into the equation :)