NASes are pricey but provide a level of robustness that a beefy external hard drive or cloud storage just don’t provide. In a NAS you can configure drives in...
RAID5 is risky on drives that large, there’s a decent chance of a read error during a rebuild.
RAID6 will provide more protection but you lose two drives worth of capacity to the parity data. I’m not sure if a three drive RAID6 is actually possible but a three way mirror would be more sensible as you’ll avoid the extra computation of parity calculation.
Imo RAID6 starts to make sense in an array of 5 or more drives.
RAID5 is risky on drives that large, there’s a decent chance of a read error during a rebuild.
RAID6 will provide more protection but you lose two drives worth of capacity to the parity data. I’m not sure if a three drive RAID6 is actually possible but a three way mirror would be more sensible as you’ll avoid the extra computation of parity calculation.
Imo RAID6 starts to make sense in an array of 5 or more drives.