I know were are getting pretty close to beating a dead horse. But considering that I accidentally wiped half the data on my server I'm gonna back up what I have and start fresh.
I would like pooled data so that I only have 1 spot for files but I'm not sure this is really necessary in the long run.
Raid5 seems the easiest and most standard. Could I use rsnapshot with that to help protect against accidentally deletions? Does having all discs spun up effect reliability of the drive? My network is generally pretty fast and faster is always better but I'm not sure the speed improvements from the striping would be that great or needed here.
There are many cases of snapraid working. I just had a fluke, must not have finished syncing or something. I like that each disk is its own disk and I can pull one out and all my data is still there and readable. I think I would like it pooled as one big volume but not really sure its necessary.
And that leaves me to snapraid w/aufs plugin. the aufs plugin honestly confuses me when trying to set it up, And I'm not sure how the pooling will effect snapraid in the event I need to rebuild.
Use is media streaming w/plex tv,movies,music and backups of files and folders from computers.
Thanks guys