07-17-2024, 05:35 PM
I own 3 Drobo FS, 2 filled with 4TB x5 and 1 with filled with 2TB x5. I have 5 new 16TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro drives. I am broke for the next while as the 5 drives cost 1160.33 CAN in total from aliexpress. Ideally a 4 bay nas is too small as a replacement fo 3 Drobos with 40TB. I feel a 5 bay at minimum would work and feel a QNAP TS-664 would take care of my future needs. I also have a spare computer. It is an i5-3570K with 16Gb ram with 8 sata ports, 6 supporting RAID5 and 1GB LAN and onboard HDMI. I'm thinking Unraid or TrueNAS but could easily create a RAID5 volume and make it a shared drive. Do I need a NAS? My Drobos have media, personal files and Windows image backups. I run 1 Drobo FS 24/7 and turn on the other media Drobos when wanted. I don't access from away or have a business. The spare computer system I rip my media to a SSD and write to the raid array directly. If runing Unraid or TrueNaS I would have to rip from my New system and transfer media over 1GB LAN.