Currently, I have a ~15tb JBOD array of unbacked up data with no redundancy. Id like to change that.
What I am thinking, is Il use 4 of the old drives combined with 2 shucked My Book 8tb drives (ive just now ordered) to both increase my storage, and add some redundancy with at least one drive of parity data, using the remaining hard drive to backup essential data (full system images).
To that end, while I'm also looking at other options, I thought it best to also price out an unraid option as my budget isn't very stretchy. (Another close option was just getting more drives in what would still be a jbod arrangement allowing me to get 1 full data backup (though it would be local and cumbersome)
Here is what I am thinking currently, for a nice cheap, yet small and reasonable nas
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This nas wouldn't really have expandability (and for now I plan to pair it with a basic key), but it would be more of a stop gap until I could get a system with at least one real full backup.
It's not based off of recommendations from the resources here, but as many of them seemed to be rather old, I figured a lot of that information was no longer relevant.
Would love thoughts/recommendations and even anecdotes.
