Hi everyone, I'm kinda just need some hardware check from the experienced users here around.
Situation :
I'm actually using a standard 2 bay Qnap system for storing mostly multimedia content and hosting a Plex server.
I also have a raspberry pi hosting some Radarr/Sonarr activity.
The qnap config is a simple 2x8TB HDD (WD red) in RAID 1 giving me an 8TB volume which is almost full, I thought of upgrading to a larger Qnap system, but after some reading and giving that I have mostly Movies and series stored, the Raid redundancy is not an important need for me and would gladly sacrifice redundancy for more Raw storage.
Goals:
To do so, I thought of building an Unraid server to host a couple (two for now) of Debian (with no GUI) server and have an array of five disks (4x8TB and 1x 10TB for parity ?!).
I also need to be able to access files outside of my LAN and have friend connecting to it with their own account to store and retrieve files (docs and photos).
Questions :
- To my understanding this could give me 32 Tb available volume with one disk failure resulting in losing no data ?
- Attached is the hardware config I'm planning on getting, would you have any replacement/add suggestion to fulfill my use case ?
- Can I configure the volume only with three disk and copy my Data's from existing NAS before adding the two remaining drives ?
- What's are the standard service to be able to access files from a web GUi and have user management enabled ?
Planned config :
- CPU : AMD Ryzen 7 3700X + Noctua NH-U9S (choosen for virtualisation capacity)
- MB : MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS (globaly fueature set)
- RAM : Kingston FURY Beast
- SSD : Samsung 860 EVO 1TB (for caching mainly, overkill ?)
- Expansion card : Delock Contrôleur SATA PCI-Ex4 - 5x SATA3 interne
- PSU : Corsair RM850 *2019* RM850
- Case : Corsair Carbide 678C
- Also, my LAN is 10GBs capable, would it be worth to add a 10Gbs NIC ?
- Disks : Seagate IronWolf 10TB x1 & Seagate IronWolf 8TB x2 (WD red 8TB x2 taht I already own)
I do realise there's a ton of posts like this existing, but thought some of your comment would be relevant to my particular use case so sorry in advance