I’m about to head off to college and want to have a single place for storage with some redundancy. I know it’d be best to have some sort of offisite backup, but I don’t really have the money for that right now judging by the amount of files I need to store.
I’d mostly be storing a lot of video projects (abt 6tb+ currently), hoping to also do some editing off of the DAS, along with playing and storing a decent bit of dvd/blu ray rips (abt 2+ tb and growing). I’d also probably have a decent but more of other miscellaneous music, videos, etc to store.
Doing some limited research I saw good things about the OWC Mercury quad paired with OWC’s SoftRaid to do a RAID5 set up.
Pricing things out, it seems like I could get 4 WD Red 8tb HDDs along with the OWC enclosure for right around my budget of about $1k, and would give me 24tb usable space.
Does this seem like a reasonable set up for my needs, and would RAID5 be good if I’ll be writing and reading from the DAS often? Thanks.