I happen to be a musician and have dabbled in a bit of home studio, and I would not proceed in this way in any case. RAID1 might be quicker to write, though still not as quick as a writing to a single platter (and of course, "wastes" much more storage.) For typical get/put "officey" type use this is an acceptable compromise because the ratio of reads to write is something like 80-20 90-10 or some such. It can read faster because the data can be read from multiple discs concurrently. And possibly back out the whole lot and try again if the update failed. To write to a RAID5 array you have to read in the entire stripe, write it away for safe keeping, update the appropriate blocks, recompute the parity, write back the blocks that changed, read them back to check they wrote correctly. Note that as this is my home studio, the NAS enclosure will be physically located in my living room, about 25 feet from the computer in question, and in a relatively quiet area. I have yet to receive the enclosure, just thinking in advance. I have no problem with trading capacity for maybe an SSD or two ultimately 6-10TB of raw storage would last me a while I think. Would you all suggest making one slot the working drive and configuring the remaining three in my raid 5 config? Or do you think that all four in raid 5 could be fast and low latency enough for me. (That's assuming I never decide to migrate my sessions to 96kHz.) I'll potentially be tracking up to 16 channels of audio at 24 bit, 48kHz simultaneously which, according to my math, works out to about 2.3MBytes/18Mbit/sec, not counting needed overhead/etc. May as well move all my sample libraries over there too if possilble, but the main thing would I want would be write speed over the network, with as few hiccups as possible. Ideally I would run all my DAW sessions from this drive and forget about my local storage, if it proves to be fast enough. My question is, what do you all think the best way to configure these four slots would be? I care about fast, low latency transfer to the working drive mainly. I'm relatively techy and handy, but not very IT experienced. (If that doesn't prove to be fast enough, no prob, I've got plenty of uses for a NAS!) I just purchased a QNAP TS-453D-4G NAS and I'm planning on experimenting with using one or more of the disks as an actual working drive over my (wired) 1GbE network. I run a home recording studio, which does have clients from time to time. Hi all - new guy here, found this place after a google for "NAS forum".
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