I recently got a few (5) hard drives to turn my home server into a NAS with trueNAS scale and my idea is to have 4 usable and 1 for redundancy, my question is… How does RAID work, like what is RAID 0, RAID 5, software RAID etc, and does any of that even matter for my use case?
All my disks are 2TB so it shouldn’t be a massive issue
I personally wouldn’t use raidz1 because it seems too risky to me. I’d have higher redundancy.
Some links
https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/raidz1-vs-raid-5-ures.42598/
https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/5x-4tb-raidz1-array-rebuilding-with-nre-ure-issue.13719/
https://magj.github.io/raid-failure/
The last link is talking about actual raid and not zfs. But it has a 50/50 chance with a URE rate of 10^14 to lose the array. Raidz1 maybe won’t have that catastrophic of a failure, but you’d still be rolling the dice on some corruption.