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Hey, asking here in case you all have any input.
Do you have any preference for a particular brand or model of NAS or RAID storage for media storage? I'm just about at 3 GB of stuff on one drive, and since I need to upgrade I figure I might as well get something with a RAID-5 (or similar) setup.
I've got an old Mac Mini that will be running Plex to do the heavy lifting and transcoding, it's got Thunderbolt 1 and USB 3. So for anything I get just for storage, CPU power or high speed really isn't required (and I'd prefer something dead simple rather than running a full OS on it). However, expandability would be good, since I'm getting a 4k TV secondhand and so my collection size will probably balloon over time.
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i would just put together a NAS like i'd put together a PC
- case with plenty of spots for hdd's (3.5" bays)
- low-power mobo/cpu with a good number of sata ports, and at least one pcie 4x+ slot for adding a sata card for more ports (now or later, depending on how many hdd's you're getting)
- hdd's, of course. don't have to be particularly high end for home use, a bunch of low end hdd's in software raid 10/5/6 will saturate gigabit ethernet with ease
- linux for mdadm/zfs, or freenas for zfs
don't use fakeraid (aka, the raid built into your motherboard), whatever you do
you don't need hardware raid, any performance arguments are well past any home user, and it just adds a hardware dependency factor, like fakeraid
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>>60771079
Synology. Great interface, great support, lots of native apps, 3rd-party ecosystem, NFS, SMB. iSCSI, etc.
If your time is cheap, go the DIT route. Otherwise...
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>>60773903
*DIY
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