Hi All - as the title suggests, I'm moving from an 8 bay to 12 bay case to expand my storage needs.
Right now I run 8x16tb in Unraid with 1 Parity drive. As part of the upgrade to 12 drives, I'll also be (finally) moving to a full local backup of all data (offsite has critical only).
In the case of having a full local backup, how do those with experience feel with sticking with 1 parity drive (again in Unraid)? Obviously, I'd like the storage of 11 drives instead of 10 and think the risk of full failure is mitigated by the fact that my local backup will also run unraid in a 1 parity config.
Other info is that this server is only personal and I am not concerned about a 1-2 week downtime if I had multi-drive failure to get it all up and running again.
Thanks for the inputs!