It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Popular-Ad-9134 on 2025-04-18 13:45:43.

I currently have a DS224+ as mediaserver running Plex with a Seagate 12TB enterprise drive and a WD Ultrastar 520 14TB running RAID0. I am aware of the lack of redundancy that is a personal choice. Recently I attached a external SSD to move my docker containers to since the system was running sluggish during high IO. Now since I am also optimizing media for transcoding I would like to upgrade to a MiniPC.

I am wondering if it's a better choice to sell the NAS and get a DAS like the Terramaster D5-300C so it can connect over USB 3.1 with my MiniPC. The MiniPC will do loads like transcoding when I am away from home or optimizing my libraries by re-encoding audio to AC3. I might need more storage in the future.