After years of supporting a major NAS brand and having 5 fail just in the last 5 months its time for a change. If one cannot rely on hardware there is no point in buying manufactured and can just build a good quality system oneself. Thanks to Linus Tech Tips I think I have seen the light with unRAID.
My first project is to move 5 Bay NAS currently with all my company / personal data on it. (Plex, Download Manager, DLNA Server and File Server)
1 X 128GB SSD
4 X 6TB Ironwolfs
Actual data used is around 3.5tb and the rest surveillance data that can be wiped.
I would like to know if this plan will work.
Build unRAID Server using a couple of 4TB Drives I have
Move my data from existing NAS
Then add the 4 X 6TB and SSD cache Drives to unRAID
Finally, remove the 4TB drives from the unRAID system?
There might be a simpler way, but any suggestions welcome.
EDIT: Fix spelling