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How big is your NAS?

6x8TB here. Adding 2x more when I can (complicated). I'm old school though, so Ive got an LSI card running Raid 6 with a BBU. And the whole server is protected by a sinewave UPS. Can withstand two drive failures at once (hopefully that never happens) since a Raid 5 is completely vulnerable when rebuilding after 1 failure - hence why I went with R6.

I'd say the biggest points to think of in general are: how many drives will I ever need (future proofing)? And what do I do in case of a disaster? For many, their media is already backed-up remotely or at least duplicated off-site, but it varies. The first part though, space... drives! I've got room for 12x 3.5" HDDs and 4x 2.5" HDDs/SSDs, but that required finding an older case with many, many 5.25" bays (10x 5.25 bays!). But I use 8TB drives which are quite affordable nowadays, if you go with larger drives, you can obviously get away with fewer of them.

All I know is, with all the ripping and other content I've added to my file server, I went from having about 10TB of free space pre-covid to less then 2TB of space now, so in 4ish years, I added more than 25% more content. Space runs out fast... and I've barely even begun to rip my 4K stuff 😅, definitely gotta fix my FS up and expand my Raid, and Soon!

Hope it helps.
 
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CMetaphor said:
6x8TB here. Adding 2x more when I can (complicated). I'm old school though, so Ive got an LSI card running Raid 6 with a BBU. And the whole server is protected by a sinewave UPS. Can withstand two drive failures at once (hopefully that never happens) since a Raid 5 is completely vulnerable when rebuilding after 1 failure - hence why I went with R6.

I'd say the biggest points to think of in general are: how many drives will I ever need (future proofing)? And what do I do in case of a disaster? For many, their media is already backed-up remotely or at least duplicated off-site, but it varies. The first part though, space... drives! I've got room for 12x 3.5" HDDs and 4x 2.5" HDDs/SSDs, but that required finding an older case with many, many 5.25" bays (10x 5.25 bays!). But I use 8TB drives which are quite affordable nowadays, if you go with larger drives, you can obviously get away with fewer of them.

All I know is, with all the ripping and other content I've added to my file server, I went from having about 10TB of free space pre-covid to less then 2TB of space now, so in 4ish years, I added more than 25% more content. Space runs out fast... and I've barely even begun to rip my 4K stuff 😅, definitely gotta fix my FS up and expand my Raid, and Soon!

Hope it helps.
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So what total usable storage does that give you under raid 6?

I'm considering one of these motherboards.....


That'd give me up to 6 Sata mechanical drives, and depending on the abilities of something like truenas I'm assuming the ability to populate an NVMe slot as a cache.
 
@sswilson 28TB usable. Not bad at all really. And each additional 8TB that I'm going to add will straight up add 8TB, just the rebuild will take a long time 🤷‍♂️ it's the price I pay, but I really like having the BBU on a hardware Raid card and my UPS for the server as a whole, given how often HydroQuebec drops the ball. (For those curious, my UPS software reports... 17 problems in the last 24 weeks, which is actually GOOD for Hydro, typically it's 22-25 problems every 24 weeks, so right about 50ish interruptions per year... yep lol)
 
Cache drives are something I've never played with actually... can someone with a big media collection report back on how having a cache drive or two helps, if at all? I thought cache drives would only be useful for things like VMs, the same data being accessed over and over. But for a file server full of media, the same files are rarely played often (unless it's Futurama haha) so I never thought cache drives would help my FS out much.
 
Asustor 4 bay. Has a small SSD in it for cache acceleration or something like that. The drives are;
1x 6TB Seagate (old shucked drive I had)
1x 10 WD (same)
1x 16TB Exos (same)
1x 20TB WD Gold (media)

I originally had 2x20TB in RAID for backup, but a) I'm not even close to filling it b) It's all from torrents so could be re-acquired c) wanted to use one for a local emulation drive (PSX-PS3/Xbox/Wii games)

I struggle to come close to capacity on any of them. I've got some work files backed up on a couple, but still rely on google drive for essential work files (and regularly throw out past the 7 year mark).
 
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Asustor 4 bay. Has a small SSD in it for cache acceleration or something like that. The drives are;
1x 6TB Seagate (old shucked drive I had)
1x 10 WD (same)
1x 16TB Exos (same)
1x 20TB WD Gold (media)

I originally had 2x20TB in RAID for backup, but a) I'm not even close to filling it b) It's all from torrents so could be re-acquired c) wanted to use one for a local emulation drive (PSX-PS3/Xbox/Wii games)

I struggle to come close to capacity on any of them. I've got some work files backed up on a couple, but still rely on google drive for essential work files (and regularly throw out past the 7 year mark).
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So that's essentially being treated as JBOD and you have the option of just swapping in a bigger drive provided you can move the data from the drive you intend to retire?
 
Honestly if you aren't going to be a hoarder, you don't need much space. I've used a 2x10tb mirror for the last 5 years without issue. I just periodically delete media I've consumed.

I paid $230 for 10TB Seagate Barracudas 5 years ago. So this Red's would be more per GB than I paid back then. Did HDD prices just stop going down?
 
I'm always thinking about adding another two drives (maybe 2x24) to my unraid server, but my funds are tied up in my camera (R5 Mark II) and my PC (9950X3D / RTX 5080) at the moment.
 
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