Today I ordered a case for what will be my new NAS come media server.
It needs to provide upwards of two terabytes storage to backup photographs and Lightroom catalogs.
Another terabyte or so to store backups of files stored on PCs and base images for bare metal restores.
Then another one or two terabytes for movies and music.
My first leaning was toward RAID5.
But I have copies of everything elsewhere and I don't like the thought of all the disks spinning up just to access a file or two.
I am looking at unraid, freenas and JBOD as alternatives. In terms of spec the system will be built on a Celeron J1900 with 4 GB of non-ECC RAM. I am hoping to run software to transcode media, e.g. plex as well as run a mail server + LAMP stack.
What are your suggestions?
It needs to provide upwards of two terabytes storage to backup photographs and Lightroom catalogs.
Another terabyte or so to store backups of files stored on PCs and base images for bare metal restores.
Then another one or two terabytes for movies and music.
My first leaning was toward RAID5.
But I have copies of everything elsewhere and I don't like the thought of all the disks spinning up just to access a file or two.
I am looking at unraid, freenas and JBOD as alternatives. In terms of spec the system will be built on a Celeron J1900 with 4 GB of non-ECC RAM. I am hoping to run software to transcode media, e.g. plex as well as run a mail server + LAMP stack.
What are your suggestions?
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