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      10-06-2016, 09:32 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by zx10guy View Post
Just throwing this out there. Those using such large capacity drives especially SATA drives need to be cognizant of the danger of failed drives and the long rebuild times in a RAID configuration. The rule of thumb for used for enterprise environments is to only use RAID 6 when you are using hard drives over 2 TB in size.
This.

I run 12 x 4TB drives in my Synology using RAID6.