Ok so the reason I want Raid 5 is I want some sense of recovery so if a hard drive decided to stop working I dont loose almost 3TB of data which I will somehow have to manage to get back. But at the same time I dont want to loose half of my storage to 1 to 1 backups. So from what I've read about Raid 5 in will loose 1 drive to parity data. And yes the whole 3 smaller and 2 larger drives I know with a Raid setup they will only use the smallest drives as a base. The 2 extra 4TB drives are extra ones I have and I'd rather loose out on 2TB of data then having to go out and buy 3 x 4TB drives.
TerraMaster D5-300 USB3.0(5Gbps) Type C 5-Bay External Hard Drive RAID Enclosure Support RAID 5 Hard Drive RAID Storage (Up to 70TB, Diskless) https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0…_r_cp_apa_i_UIDZDbEH43WWN
That is the 5 bay DAS I am looking at.