I ahve and always used 5400rpm drives for my home server. Should I consider 7200rpm for the parity drive even if the rest of my drives are not?

Depends. How are you going to use the server?

It only servers two purposes - back up of data + plex media server (that will handle transcoding as well)

You probably wouldn't be able to tell a difference.

It only servers two purposes - back up of data + plex media server (that will handle transcoding as well)

The only place you may see a difference is on Parity checks. I have a 7200 rpm parity and 5400 rpm data drives. With an 8TB parity, my parity check completed a couple of hours faster than with 5400 rpm.

Of course, having higher capacity/higher density drives helps in that regard as well since Parity checks are constrained by lowest drive speed.


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Same as Hoopster, switching to 7200 rpm drives for parity boosted parity check speed by 10% or so

Ok thanks guys!