Jonathan-pas

Thanks Wetafroman, the REDs are not the best performance wise and capacity too, as it would use 4 slot instead of 1 if I use for exemple 16TB (WD Ultrastar SAS). As off offloading large files, today i use HiSpeed SSD to offload the footage and work on it, and let my backup software copy everything automatically to my internal HDD. I suppose I could do the same with the nas... Do you have any other idea ? Thanks

It's not a drive failure, it's the full HDD that I change for a new empty one....

Hello, I'm a photographer and videographer and I'm having more and more problems with my hard drives (I use internal drives at the moment that I change every 3-6 months), and it's starting to bother me. So I want to build an unraid server for storage. Since the server would only be turned on when I'm working, I figure it might also be worth using it as a workstation. That's about the list of parts I have. Since I have about 16 WD red plus 4TB disks, I was wondering if it was possible to reuse them in my nas, even if they are not officially recommended to run with more than 8 disks at the same time (the idea would be to have about 8HDD red 4TB, 2x WD Ultrastar 16TB as parity, 2x 2TB blue ssd as cache, then 1x black ssd 2TB as system disk for a Windows partition). As the time goes by, keep the possibility to change the 4TB disks by 12-16TB disks. Here is the list of parts I have found for the moment: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MfMqcT Most important for the workstation: thunderbold 4 + min 2.5Gb ethernet. Question: can the virtual workstation access the share without going through an internet connection, and is it a build that can work properly? What would you change? Thanks a lot for your hlep.