Yeah, I'm all for larger from the start since I always go diskless. This allows me more room to expand. I started with a DS413j back in the day. I now have a "normal" middle range (not j or + series) and a "+", which is 6 bay.
SHR Is not the same as RAID 5 or any of the others. Somewhere I read a great comparison, but I'm not going to dig it up now. I went with SHR and haven't looked back. I've had disks fail and no issues. I simply remove the bad disk and replace it with a new one and normally a larger one giving me more storage than I had before. It syncs the changes rebuilding the array with the new capacity and I'm back up and running.
It is slow on the start though, rebuilding and recovering from a disk failure will take time with larger disks in the unit.
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