First time user - Best way to setup 4x8TB drives?

I am about to throw out my 10 x 2TB drives running in hardware Raid 6 and replace it with 4 x 8TB drives.

I have only played around with OMV in a VM for a couple hours before installing it in to my server.

90% of my files are movies and tv-shows, the rest is pictures and some backups from my home computes.

Anyway. I am trying to figure out what is the best way to set up my new drives and possible keep some sort of "safety" that raid-6 has given me until now.

Is there any clear recommendation on setup I should follow? Raid or not, what kind for filesystem and so on.

Zitat von KM0201

As long as you understand there is no "safety" with RAID... Raid 5 should work fine.

Yes of course. By safety I mean the possibility that one or more drives can be faulty without loosing any data. At some point one or more drives will fail and then I want to be able to just replace the faulty drive and keep going without any loss of data.

All the important files like pictures and so on is also backed up to an external drive and to the cloud.

Zitat von raulfg3

please read about ZFS and Raid-Zx (Z1, Z2) features.

I have. Problem is that I dont have any ECC ram and my mobo dont support it. I se this mentioned as a requirement for zfs in all the discussions regarding it.

I did some testing of the raid-5 built in feature in omv using my VM. I setup a array, transferred some files and then deleted one of the drives from the VM to se if it could easily be replaced. To my surprise the entire array were gone from omv without any possible way to rebuild/recover it. Does it only work while the drives are faulty and stil connected, not if the drive dies completely? The array should stil work in raid-5 even when one of the drives are missing right?