Cool, that at least gives me a baseline to work from.
I've just got so much stuff accumulated from over the years that storing it all on the tower feels like it's not going to be sustainable for too much longer since consumer drive capacity seems to have completely capped out at 8TB and hasn't budged for years.
Sorry I don't have more info. But like I said, I haven't been researching the options in quite awhile.
Anything with good reviews should hopefully work for you. I would recommend going with more bays if you can afford it, since it will minimize the percentage of your capacity dedicated to parity (3 disks = 33.3% parity, 10 disks = 10% parity).
Also, the smallest drive in the array will determine the size of the volume, so try to keep them all to the same size if possible. If you can't, you can later hot swap larger drives in place of smaller ones (one at a time! Let it rebuild after each swap), but the volume will only expand after the smallest drive has been swapped out.
It will be an expensive bit of kit when you are done, but it is totally worth it. Good luck!
Cool, that at least gives me a baseline to work from.
I've just got so much stuff accumulated from over the years that storing it all on the tower feels like it's not going to be sustainable for too much longer since consumer drive capacity seems to have completely capped out at 8TB and hasn't budged for years.
Sorry I don't have more info. But like I said, I haven't been researching the options in quite awhile.
Anything with good reviews should hopefully work for you. I would recommend going with more bays if you can afford it, since it will minimize the percentage of your capacity dedicated to parity (3 disks = 33.3% parity, 10 disks = 10% parity).
Also, the smallest drive in the array will determine the size of the volume, so try to keep them all to the same size if possible. If you can't, you can later hot swap larger drives in place of smaller ones (one at a time! Let it rebuild after each swap), but the volume will only expand after the smallest drive has been swapped out.
It will be an expensive bit of kit when you are done, but it is totally worth it. Good luck!