2023-11-01, 05:26 AM
a NAS would offer you greater flexibility overall (not the least of which it won't be limited to it's host machine, anything on your network would be able to access a NAS), and better redundancy protection. yes, a NAS would generally cost more than an external JBOD chassis, but it's worth the difference IMO. you'll probably want a 4-bay device, should give you (with 20TB drives, say) ~60TB storage (20TB would be used as parity for single-drive failure redundancy - more than that would simply give you "less" total storage). you're looking at around $100-per-bay in general for a NAS.