I'm thinking of expanding my homelab media server setup by getting a NAS (probably a 4-bay from synology). I was thinking of the following approach and wanted to get some feedback:
- 1 4-bay drive set up in RAID 0. This will allow me to maximise my storage space. There will be a folder for my media files, but I will also probably use it for general storage too (negligible space by comparison to movies/TV/etc.)
- Second 4-bay drive set up in RAID 0. The first drive will back up to this one on a regular cadence, and this bay will back up to the cloud. This way I have data recovery in the event of drive failure since I'll be playing fast and loose with RAID 0 to maximise space.
- Mini-CPU to run Plex (currently using Beelink S12 Pro). I don't want to run Plex from the bay itself bc S12 can do hardware transcoding and I want to take advantage of that
Does this seem like a good long-term set up (i doubt i'll ever hit 96TB (planning on 24TB drives) of stuff)? I'd start small and only expand drives as needed. Do Synology bays alert you when drives fail? And what OS would you recommend? I see a lot about unRAID and trueNAS but i don't really know the differences