On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 9:06 PM John Stoffel [off-list ref] wrote:

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In any case, make sure you get NAS rated disks, either the newest WD
RED+ (or is it Blue?)  In any case, make sure to NOT get the SMR
(Shingled Magnetic Recording) format drives.  See previous threads in
this group, as well as the arstechnica.com discussion about it all
that they disk last month.  Very informative.

Personally, with regular hard disks, I still kinda think 4gb is the
sweet spot, since you can just mirror pairs of the disks and then
stripe across on top as needed.  I like my storage simple, because
when (not if!) it all hits the fan, simple is easier to recover from.

Did you mean 4 TB or 4 GB as you wrote?
(Somewhat of a difference I do believe.)

Regards