Hi all,
I'm in need of very basic storage, somewhere to store my family photos and videos. No need for cloud access or the ability to stream from this storage device whatsoever, and I'm not going to be copying heaps of data at a time so bandwidth/throughput is not a big deal (except for day one of course). It's just a content vault.
I've been looking at NAS solutions but think the most cost effective and acceptable option is a DAS plugged into my desktop. I do however want drive redundancy (RAID 1) and have read that hardware RAID on DAS devices is iffy.
Any truth to this? When this comes up people recommend software RAID which I've not researched yet.
If a DAS is OK for my purposes, what are suggested brands and models? 2 bay would be enough but I'll look for a 4 bay model just in case e.g. QNAP TR-004.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: just found the wiki entry on software RAID so will be doing that, assuming I use a DAS.