How big is your NAS?

[sswilson]

I'm considering building myself a media server/NAS and really have no idea what kind of specs I should be looking to build.

Without getting too deep into the weeds of what content is going to be on it, what kind of total storage numbers are folks running?

So far I'm considering doing a DIY in a silverstone GD09 with one of the aliexpress N100/N150 / 6 Sata Port / 2.5G + 10G (copper) motherboards (I've already got 8GB memory + a 128GB OS NVMe), but I have absolutely no idea what capacity drives I should be shooting for......

What's reasonable these days? Would 4X6TB be a reasonable start?

edit: Am I looking at this the wrong way? Should I just be looking to grab a 2 or 4 bay dedicated NAS and go from there?

 

[crazyea]

I'm considering building myself a media server/NAS and really have no idea what kind of specs I should be looking to build.

Without getting too deep into the weeds of what content is going to be on it, what kind of total storage numbers are folks running?

So far I'm considering doing a DIY in a silverstone GD09 with one of the aliexpress N100/N150 / 6 Sata Port / 2.5G + 10G (copper) motherboards (I've already got 8GB memory + a 128GB OS NVMe), but I have absolutely no idea what capacity drives I should be shooting for......

What's reasonable these days? Would 4X6GB be a reasonable start?

Certainly you meant TB there. I have 2x18TB in my server.

 

[sswilson]

Certainly you meant TB there. I have 2x18TB in my server.

Heh.... yeah, TB.

 

[sswilson]

Certainly you meant TB there. I have 2x18TB in my server.

Is that without any kind of backup so that if one drive fails you lose it all?

 

[crazyea]

Heh.... yeah, TB.

I think it would be a better idea to start a bit bigger unless you already have the drives then use it until it becomes too small.

 

[crazyea]

Is that without any kind of backup so that if one drive fails you lose it all?

Yeh but it’s media so I don’t care. I also have an external with the important stuff backed up to it.

 

[sswilson]

I think it would be a better idea to start a bit bigger unless you already have the drives then use it until it becomes too small.

The main reason I was looking at the 4X6TB was current pricing on something that I could do more than 2 drives in order to do raid 5 (or whatever the standard is these days).

But again I have absolutely no idea what kind of requirements are out there.

edit: I'm also not overly concerned with backup as my crucial data is backed up through onedrive on several PCs as well as backed up to an external NVMe drive.

 

[ipaine]

Ok well first mine is nothing but a standard windows PC with a bunch of drives internally and with an external 4 bay attached. "Backup" is just using Stablebit DrivePool, all data is duplicated. My real important stuff is also duplicated into the cloud.

Drive wise, I have 8x8tb (slowly replacing them) and 3x12tb, 4 of which are in the external bay. Also have a 500gb ssd for cache and have been meaning to up that to 1tb as I have a few lying around I could use. After formatting that is 91.4TB or 45.7TB if every single thing is duplicated.

So can survive a single drive failure without issue and have a few folders set to triple so they could survive two drives going down.

Yup not the nicest approach but for costs it was cheap as I just used parts I had except for the drives.

 

[Shadowmeph]

ok reading the title sounds like a personal thing especially for us Males

 

[JD]

WD Red Plus 12TB are 2 for $569 at the moment: https://www.westerndigital.com/en-ca/products/internal-drives/wd-red-plus-sata-3-5-hdd?sku=WD120EFBX

Probably an acceptable starting point and just having it mirrored.