I bought 4 TB of hard drive space 8 years ago and how now maxed that out. I've been taking a lot of high res video and photos lately, as well as just working on a lot of projects that require plenty of space. I have the ability to hold 4 hard drives in my system in a RAID. I'm currently doing a RAID 5, but I'm considering changing that up due to concerns of data redundancy.
The following article has me wanting to configure my next four drives as a RAID 1+0 (a.k.a. RAID 10) and essentially have half the space.
www.zdnet.com
Does anybody here have experience using RAID, and if so, what would you recommend I do with the four bays?
As far as actual hard drives, I'm currently debating doing at least 4 x 6TB drives ($165 each) for a total of 24TB and possibly as low as 12 usable TB.
I'd love to go crazy and get four 16TB drives (below), but that would cost me over $2,000.
www.newegg.com
Realistically I'm probably looking at 6TB or 8TB, but I haven't decided yet.
The following article has me wanting to configure my next four drives as a RAID 1+0 (a.k.a. RAID 10) and essentially have half the space.

RAIDfail: Don't use RAID 5 on small arrays | ZDNet
Big storage companies stopped recommending RAID 5 a couple of years ago. But I still see small 4-drive arrays touting RAID 5 for home and small office use.

Does anybody here have experience using RAID, and if so, what would you recommend I do with the four bays?
As far as actual hard drives, I'm currently debating doing at least 4 x 6TB drives ($165 each) for a total of 24TB and possibly as low as 12 usable TB.
I'd love to go crazy and get four 16TB drives (below), but that would cost me over $2,000.

Are you a human?
Realistically I'm probably looking at 6TB or 8TB, but I haven't decided yet.