2023-10-16, 08:05 PM
you could buy a single 16TB and dump the entire contents of your existing NAS on it
for personal use - i use jbod and just add multiple paths to each jellyfin library
- my redundancy (and safety net) is physical bluray discs, diligent administration and strict policies about old drives, 3 years is a limit for my drives and after 2 they become archival storage away from any main activity
for personal non-media use i have a single redundant backup alone
for business it's a different story, 3x redundancy minimum 'online' and an offline archived copy because you're dealing with databases that cannot be replaced
so it is really hard to speculate what will be best for someone else because the loss of time may be unacceptable where it is not to me
edit: in fact, just today i phased out 2 8TB drives - 1 s.m.a.r.t. started reporting bad sectors (everything was recovered safely), the other was an archive
for personal use - i use jbod and just add multiple paths to each jellyfin library
- my redundancy (and safety net) is physical bluray discs, diligent administration and strict policies about old drives, 3 years is a limit for my drives and after 2 they become archival storage away from any main activity
for personal non-media use i have a single redundant backup alone
for business it's a different story, 3x redundancy minimum 'online' and an offline archived copy because you're dealing with databases that cannot be replaced
so it is really hard to speculate what will be best for someone else because the loss of time may be unacceptable where it is not to me
edit: in fact, just today i phased out 2 8TB drives - 1 s.m.a.r.t. started reporting bad sectors (everything was recovered safely), the other was an archive