Win10 pro DIY almost NAS, raid5, ZFS & Storage spaces?

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I have a machine running that also works as a NAS kind of thing, besides running some programs as well.Storage is 4x2TB HDD in raid0, 2x256GB SSD in raid0. SSD raid0 works as a write cache sort of thing for the HDD raid0. This has worked for years. But, for random 4K read, even 4x HDD in raid0 is slow, way to slow when hit with multiple requests at once. And with Gbit internet, the drives just can't keep up.So i want to replace the 6 drives with 5x2TB SSD. And this time i'd like to add a bit of redundancy, it's not critical but would make life a bit easier in case a drive dies. Here raid5 come

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