All I want is additional storage space for archiving files off of my PC that has some protection against drive failure. What is the simplest method of achieving this?
Until recently I used a Synology 4 bay NAS but I've outgrown it and since I never used 99% of the features of a NAS, I decided to get a 10 bay IcyBox DAS (I think it's a DAS? It connects via USBC) that I saw on sale along with 4 24TB Seagate drives. My idea was to then use Windows Storage Spaces to create a pool and mirror the drives to add redundancy.
But then I saw a lot of people on here really don't like Storage Spaces which sent me down a rabbit hole of Googling and reading threads which involved a million acronyms and other words and names I don't understand and now I'm thoroughly confused. Like what's the difference between a DAS and a JBOD? What's a Home Lab? What's ZFS? (I'm just asking these to show the kind of research mess I've ended up in, don't feel the need to spend paragraphs answering them.)
Is Storage Spaces good enough for what I want? Will it easily allow me to add more drives to the pool down the line? Did I buy the wrong thing? Should I have done something else?