It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Deep-Egg-6167 on 2024-06-17 07:44:13.

Hello,

I'm about to build another system for my movie collection. I currently have an adaptec 3514-16 with 16x12TB drives in RAID 5. I'm debating about the size of the drives to get next but I'm guessing I'll get 16x16TB drives in a RAID 5.1 config but I'm not 100% sure My collection hasn't grown that much in the last 4 years so 50TB will go a long way.

I've read many debates saying just get an HBA card instead of a RAID card but I've never actually seen any performance (real world statistics) comparing the two. I'm still open to considering either one but would appreciate anyone who can point me to some real statistics vs opinion or based on what they've heard. Your opinion may be 100% correct but I'd love some posted benchmarks.