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Yeah you're gonna like the faster booting/upgrading. I would say if you're dealing with that much data you should at the very least be running a RAID1. If you're using more than one disk at least a RAID5. It seems like a waste of storage until your 8TB disk dies completely and you don't have a backup.
If it's ONLY for media storage though, I just rawdog it as a JBOD, since my media is gotten through the *arrs I figure I prefer the extra space and can easily just redownload stuff if I lose a drive since none of that data is critical
Yeah that makes sense. I'd rather not go through trouble of re-dowloading all of my stuff once you get above like a couple TB. I've got an old RAID5 running 6 3TB disks I bought used. I've had 2 fail (SMART prefail, not completely) over the past 5 years. For me, the money I saved on used disks let me buy more and still keep it protected. As with everything, it all depends on what you're willing to lose.