I currently have over 100 TB of media storage. Split between two NAS's
NAS1. My original is a Windows 7, Intel RAID controller, RAID5, 8 x 3 TB Drives (~20TB), NFS Shares, OS on a separate SSD drive.
NAS2. Huge box with Unraid 6.6 Pro. 12 x 6 and 10 TB drives + 2 x 10 TB Parity drives.
My ( 4 or 5) Media Management Servers are all virtualized Ubuntu running under VMWare on a large Dell Server.
The Windows NAS1 is also my "work" station, so this is were I manage my library, review/verify my media, edit my scripts, etc.
An application while scanning/importing my media files on NAS1, deleted every file. All the data "should" be recoverable, since was just deleted and not wiped or written over.
I purchased a couple 10 TB drives to recover the delete data to. Then at that point the NAS1 will be empty for me to do whatever I want to it. But here's the dilemma. I have a couple options.
1. Do I continue using NAS1 as I have, Workstation and NAS? I've not had any real problem with it.
2. Stop using NAS1 for storage. Add more storage to NAS2 and move all data from NAS1 to NAS2. Having only a single NAS moving forward?
3. Build out a new NAS3 storage server with unRAID. Move data from NAS1 to NAS3 and stop using NAS1 for storage and just use NAS1 as a workstation? Having two NAS's (NAS2 & NAS3) moving forward.
I guess the real question is, with over 100+ TB of data What would you do? Split between two NAS's or is it okay to keep all the data in one NAS?