Hello all, I’m new to this space and I am hoping to get some help/clarification. I have a new project I’m working on which is to build my own “cloud” to back up photos and other files for my family so we can stop paying for cloud storage. I got that up and running using Nextcloud but what I want to do now is build redundancy as I am using used hard drives.
I saw windows has storage spaces which appears to offer a windows flavour of raid 5, so I got 2 more drives (3 total) but I noticed it would not let me use the one drive I have running windows to add it to my combined drive.
I am hoping anyone have any solutions other than to buy a 4th drive, run storage spaces with the 3 empty drives and then clone my files to the combined drive before adding my first drive to the combined drive.