Configuring a NAS with 5 4TB hard drives

[Aleyman]

Can a QNAP NAS with 5 each 4TB hard drives in a raid 6 configuration be formatted as one logical drive or several logical drives and which is a more common configuration? Thanks in advance for any help you have to offer.

 

[popatim]

depends on which QNap you have as the raid is software raid and the parity calculations would all need to be done by the cpu.
Most common configuration , imo, is raid10.but this wastes lots of space in favor or higher performance & much shorter rebuild times.

 

[USAFRet]

Can a QNAP NAS with 5 each 4TB hard drives in a raid 6 configuration be formatted as one logical drive or several logical drives and which is a more common configuration? Thanks in advance for any help you have to offer.

Which particular Qnap?
I have a TS-453A. 4 drives. 3TB each.

Currently, it is in a RAID 5, resulting in ~8TB usable space. I have it as one single volume, but it could be several, if I chose.
It would do RAID 6 if I wanted.