It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tonio4600 on 2024-08-02 00:39:47.

I'm considering building my own NAS. On one hand I'll be using it to store movies, photos and miscellaneous files and on the other hand as a plex server on my local network and probably to build one or two virtual machines (home assistant for example).

Anyway, what's the difference between a standard HDD and a NAS specific drive of the same brand? Do I really have to pay an extra cost for specific NAS drives? I don't really understand why standard drives couldn't be used...

I'll probably start with 6 HDD of 2TB or 4 HDD of 4TB, what type of RAID should I use? As I'll need at least 7-8TB of space, probably a RAID5 or 6 should be good. What do you think?

Thanks