So /g/ while I'm in the process of restoring 4tb of data to my server after a hdd failed, I can't help but worry about the day when I outgrow my current storage capacity which is pushing 8TB. Right now I'm at maybe 90-95% full. I figure that by some point next year I'll be out of room.
Currently my setup is rather simple, all 8TB of server data can and is backed up to the NSA320s which also is 8TB. But once I hit all 8TB that's it. I could buy another NAS for backups but if I did that soon I'd have a whole fleet of them (assuming I bought one every 10 yrs when I full them up)
Use tape bro
>>56183165
You need a proper computer with a bunch of drive bays, not a no-sharp-edges consumer NAS with a nice web interface. I'd do it with ZFS (either with the Linux port or on FreeBSD, whichever you prefer) myself. Expandability is a bit of a pain, since you can't remove vdevs, but the alternative (Btrfs) has broken RAID6, and you can work around it by using drives in mirror pairs.
>>56183250
OP is homo. FreeNAS or any BSD will do the job.
OP is millenial, he looks at the box, not the content
TL;DR OP is a FAG