4 disks in Raid 1 + another disk for OS

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keithgchapman

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I'm building a NAS + HTPC system to store my pictures, important files and movies. The main purpose of the system is storage for my pictures + important files (The HTPC part is an added advantage). I'm planning to have four 3TB WD RED drives in Raid 1 to store the pictures and important files.

I have not got a drive to install the OS yet. I was wondering whether it makes sense to get a 3 TB WD green drive for the OS and use that to store my movies (This wont have a backup and I don't really mind loosing the movies, more worried about loosing pictures).

Is this a possible setup? a WD Green drive for OS and movies and four 3 TB WD Red drives in Raid 1.
 
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Emerald

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the WD Green drive is not made to be used as a primary drive, it will work for a while and then eventually fail.

Get a WD Blue as your OS drive.

as for the four WD Red I think you want to run them in RAID 10 which will give you 6GB of storage plus the safety of the mirror.
 
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keithgchapman

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Thanks for the info on the WD green drives Emerald. Will look into going with a WD Black or a WD blue for the OS drive (Might probably go with the black because of higher capacity and prolly store the movies on that)
 
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I was thinking of going with Ubuntu + plex. I don't think freenas supports flex. I don't have any laptop drives around, the case I got has room for six 3.5 inch drives. I plan to use up 4 of them now and probably use the other 2 in the future. Installing the OS on a flash drive would mean that I leave my options open :)
 
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