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Dilemma about a storage solution for 4tb (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/zanfrNFT on 2025-02-23 13:36:44.

Recently I got my old synology NAS (very slow by today's standards) back which contains very important files (family photos and that sort of thing) from 8 or so years ago.

There is about 3 tb worth of it. I don't feel like keeping a NAS online as this is really cold storage. So I am pondering my options:

I can salvage the drives in the NAS (~44k hours WD Reds with no errors according to SMART) and place them in a USB HD enclosure (in RAID?), but I'm not about which enclosure would be reliable and affordable (suggestions?)
OR get an external USB HD (not SSD) and store on there, if yes which is reliable nowadays?

Obviously in either case I need to have access to reliable SMART data for monitoring.

What is the current best practice ?

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