Can anyone guide me (a newcomer) to the subtle art of storing everything I possibly want in a NAS? Also how do I build a NAS from scratch? Thanks for any help at all!
Can anyone guide me (a newcomer) to the subtle art of storing everything I possibly want in a NAS? Also how do I build a NAS from scratch? Thanks for any help at all!
YouTube is your friend. So is piracy. And torrents. And a must, get cheap HDD’s.
Why cheap hdds and not ssds?
HDDs are cheaper than SSDs per GB
Shuckable HDDs are even cheaper per GB
I’ve purchased several 18TB WD Red Pro HDDs for $249.37, or $13.85/TB. I’ve also purchased and price tracked shuckable HDDs and don’t recall ever finding a better $/TB than that.
SSDs are unnecessarily expensive when you’re looking at hoarding dozens or hundreds of terabytes of data. You won’t be gaming off your drives you use for hoardings so there’s really little benefit except in transferring stuff off them. Most of what people hoard tends to be media or documents which are find being played directly off even a slow modern HDD.
When they start making 12TB SSDs (or larger) at a similar $/TB, I’ll start using them over HDDs for hoarding.
I’d agree with everything except for “cheap” HDDs. Depends on how valuable your data is to you. And the best $/TB I’ve come across for an HDD, that I trust with my data, is the 18TB WD Red Pro HDDs for $249.37, or $13.85/TB.