I’m looking to spec out a new NAS. I have a relatively small media collection, that I hope to grow as I digitize more family VHS tapes etc. Right now I have around 4 TB of data, shared across an external drive and my internal ssd.
Whats the best path forward on drives in this new NAS? I’ve heard advice for buying one big 20TB drive over multiple smaller drives. What’s best for mitigation of drive failure? Is that even a concern? If I do multiple drives, should I use RAID?
I’m a little new to this. If you have resources for learning some best practices I’m all ears.
Drives fails so always be ready for that.
How many drives you buy depends on your goals. I wanted a small nas so I’m using raid1 and just have 2 drives.
If your nas has more drive bays and supports it you can start with 2 drives and simple add a drive as needed. You wouldn’t be using raid at that point as man nas have more flexible options. My Synology calls it SHR.
This assumes you need simple file storage and not running multiple VMs with databases.