Hi, i have a 5 bay external sata drive bay and 5 2gb drives which i wish to setup to use for storing files for streaming over plex and some backups of main drives.
I am thinking of using 4 drives plus one as hot spare. During my research I have read that a raidz will give more total space, but mirrored vdev will give better read performance and better redundancy in case of drive failure!
Which would you recommend in this scenario taking into account upgrading to bigger drives in the future.
Thanks