markymiles
Distinguished Member
I'm looking at cheapest possible options for a 4 Bay Raid 5 NAS or equivalent.
I've been resisting having all movies on a NAS due primarily to costs so have accumulated over the years 4 USB 3/2 Drives which are fairly full of Bluray Rips in MKV format. 3 drives are 4tb and 1 is 3tb. I probably have around 10TB of movies.
I know there are favoured NAS drives which these won't be but to get going I could open up the enclosures and use them in the NAS, then slowly replace with WD Red's when funds allow. Problem being obviously they would be wiped when setting up the Raid array.
So I'm just thinking of solutions, I just need the movies stored temporarily then put back on. Is this something offered by anyone. Worst case scenario I'd have to buy two Red's in Raid 1 and fill them up and convert to Raid 5 as I empty the others and install. This is not the cheapest option though.
I've been resisting having all movies on a NAS due primarily to costs so have accumulated over the years 4 USB 3/2 Drives which are fairly full of Bluray Rips in MKV format. 3 drives are 4tb and 1 is 3tb. I probably have around 10TB of movies.
I know there are favoured NAS drives which these won't be but to get going I could open up the enclosures and use them in the NAS, then slowly replace with WD Red's when funds allow. Problem being obviously they would be wiped when setting up the Raid array.
So I'm just thinking of solutions, I just need the movies stored temporarily then put back on. Is this something offered by anyone. Worst case scenario I'd have to buy two Red's in Raid 1 and fill them up and convert to Raid 5 as I empty the others and install. This is not the cheapest option though.