Hey all, trying to get myself situated and not the most tech-savvy person so apologies in advance if I'm missing the mark. For context, I'm mostly a hobbyist photographer that wants to just keep my data safe and I don't believe I'd have a need for most of what a NAS offers, so I'm looking into DAS/JBOD as a solution. I currently have around 6TB of photo/video I consider "important" enough to backup.
My current setup is just a single 14 TB WD External HD which is not really being backed up anywhere so I'd like to improve my setup.
At the core, I'm currently planning on doing the following:
- Buying a new 8TB HDD that I'll be "working off of", and moving all of my existing data into it
- Buying a 4 bay DAS, either using 2 drives for now for RAID1 or buying 4 for RAID4/5 (??) to periodically mirror data from the single 8TB drive onto.
- Using Backblaze to backup my PC + DAS.
Does this setup make sense for my needs? If it does make sense, does anybody have any particular product recommendations for the DAS/JBOD and if there's any specific thing to look for in the type of drive(s) to purchase? Is this perhaps overkill for the use case? Please let me know if I'm not providing enough information, thanks.