Multiple drives of a lower (1-2tb) capacity might be more expensive, but they’d technically be more resistant to a single failure over fewer larger (4tb+) drives when in a pool/array.
Multiple drives of a lower (1-2tb) capacity might be more expensive, but they’d technically be more resistant to a single failure over fewer larger (4tb+) drives when in a pool/array.
I think it depends on what you’re storing. If it’s video then you’ll want bigger drives because you’ll fill your array of small drives up quickly and trying to manage 10 or 15 1TB HDDs will get out of hand quickly. Backing up isn’t super critical with large “Linux ISOs” since you can just torrent most everything again to replace missing files.
For fast throughput of small files, I think smaller drives in an array win out and if these are important files, it probably wouldn’t be too expensive to buy a couple of large HDDs to backup the entire array.