Got myself a western digital mycloud PR4100; loaded up with three WD red 8TB hdds into raid-5 config (giving nigh 16TB storage). Considered raid-10 but the extra mullah was an unacceptable endeavour. Can connect via phone & obviously via my network at home or WD online-server access route. The thing I've yet to explore is what apps or potentially loading jellyfish/emby lark. So my questioning brain wonders what you good people might be doing with..
Media server (Samba mounted folders serving to Kodi on other devices), BitTorrent client (Deluge), Car/bike tracking server (Traccar), cctv recorder (Shinobi), Automatic backups from laptops. I did play with iTunes server on an apfs share a while back but it was quite fragile at the time, may be better now. Same story with Apple Time Machine backups.
I am making animal grunting noises reading your responce because I am a simpleton. Cheers @Coda you make me feel so out of touch & inspired. Are those through one device or multiple nas devices? Sounds like your only missing a CCTV network & its job done your a bond villian
OYB aylesbury did that also & when their main system went down. The backup company used the same cloud-service so lost a shit-ton of info & stored formats et cetra. I fully backup my stuff too off-line HDD's. It's just that a NAS server has tempted me for quite sometime & a nice second hand one was worth dipping my toes in. And now I can test out streaming DVD & music I own that are digitally backed up. All via either my phones or when touring with an internet connection. Cannot allow third-parties to have my data & potentially plant criminal stuff into it which mi5 have tried via torrents & (old) mates emails.
Have a raid drive on my soon to be retired PC that I can access via a VPN. I intend to switch out to a higher spec system in the next couple of months as it is long overdue. Not gone down the NAS route but in terms of security, I am gradually weaning all my home automation from cloud based services over to Home Assistant using a local MQTT broker and Node Red with exterior access through Cloud Flare.
It’s basically down to how much performance and reliability do you actually need? I have built some servers in my time using storage arrays using das or san systems up to 60 ssd drives and tbh there was no point using raid 10 on most of them as the customers didn’t have any processing power capable of keeping up but it was a buzzword! But you say for reliability, raid 1 or raid 5 is enough - won’t matter much as each can only stand 1 disk failure - so raid 6 then becomes the only choice as can then stand 2 failures - or if the data is that critical raid 1 with a second device to replicate to as a simple backplane failure it’s potentially all toast anyway
