It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Linksta35 on 2024-09-07 18:08:40.

Hello, I'm new to this data hoarding business. I've been doing extensive amounts of research and I think I've finally landed on a plan of attack that works for me.

My plan is to build my own NAS for my media storage which is mostly what this will be for. I'm going to start with 2 drives on TrueNAS running mirroring/RAID1. These will be the my first vdev for the pool. As I need more storage, I will continue to buy pairs of hard drives and create a new mirrored vdev to add to the pool. I know this cuts my storage in half and is probably not the best value, but it's simple and flexible.

Am I missing anything I should be considering or is this plan a okay? Thank you in advance for the help.