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Ok I am now broke. Anyone want to buy some domains!

Bought the Synology 1513+ (5 bay) and 5 x 4tb Deskstars (and a camera to keep my other half from giving me grief about spending so much... :D)

I loaded in the drives already and am now figuring out the bast RAID config. I thought because these drives are reviewed as more reliable that RAID 5 would be ok, leaving me with more available space... then I read that if a disk fails and I'm rebuilding, that's the time when another disk is most likely to fail! So RAID 6?? but then lose half the capacity?

I also read about the huge amount of time for rebuilds with 5 and especially 6... so RAID 1 and mirroring? Too many decisions... my gut is saying RAID 5.
 
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If you are using a local USB backup incrementing a few times a week, then Raid 5 should be ok, worse case if you get a failure during a rebuild (2nd drive death) you lose a few days at worse.

Raid 5 should give you 16tb and raid 6 gives 12tb so not really half the loss, just additional 4tb.

If you're not using a local usb back up, then prob raid 6 is best bet.

Edit: with the 1513 you can add the 2 or 5 bay expansion unit as well, taking it up to 10 bays, so raid 6 may well be better with a long term view.
 
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Hitachi are destroying the chart, and Seagate has a shocking report on there.

I can vouch for Samsung's their F4 drives are awesome in backup device, I have a bunch of them running for backups. they only have a bunch in there so didn't really report much.
 
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