I’m trying to plan to set up a storage space on a Win10 Home pc. Hardware has always been an area I’ve struggled with some I’m hoping to get some advice. If this belongs in a different forum, please let me know. Here it goes…

My goal is to get a total storage space of around 40TB with decent read and write speeds. I am going to have six (6) physical 8TB drives in total. I would like it to appear as if all in one large drive. From what I’ve gathered, a storage space with single parity is my best/safest option as it does allow for one disk failure while still using the majority of the disk space.

One thing that is complicating it is I am going to have to start the install with just three (3) disks in the pool so I can migrate data to it. Then I will have to add the rest of the disks and data one at a time until all six are installed.

Most of the data is large files like movies, tv, and music. There will also be a bunch of accompanying files for the metadata and artwork. That’s pretty much the environment and constraints. So from what I’ve read, and I may have this entirely wrong, my end goal should be to have…

6 columns (number of Physical disks) 256 kb allocation unit size 64 kb interleave

It looks like I can set that up using a combination of disk management and powershell.

Some questions I know I have are…

*Does this sound like it would be a correct set up for my situation?;

*When I first create the storage pool, should I set the maximum size to planned final size of 40TB or can that be later expanded? And is 40TB the correct pool size to set for (6) 8TB?

*Are there other considerations I should be taking into consideration that I don’t know about.

Sorry that this is long and I am so obviously not knowledgeable about this. I am just trying to plan it out correctly so I do it right the first time. Thanks for any help you can give.