My goal is to have an extendable pool with at least 6x4 TB drives + 2x256 GB SSDs in the beginning and to make use of Write Back Cache on SSD which works fine in my above example.
) in order to convert it into a family NAS as well as use its VM capabilities to run a windows 10 to host my servers. My other goal was to keep this DIYNASbuild under $200, excluding the cost of the hard drives. 4) If writing to the drive is very slow, then cancel and go back to step 6. This number will be converted to tebibytes (powers of 2).
So, while a fundamental understanding of the Expand the Volume Size. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures.
Parity drives are calculated in real-time, so immediate data reconstruction is possible in the event of a drive failure.