I am an amateur photographer/videographer who also games and starting to get into running my own local data storage system. I'm planning on buying for now 2x12 or 2x14 TB iron wolf reds to pair with my Fedora 42 M1 Mac Mini. I have 1 PC at my main place and another PC at a different state. I want to be able to easily access large files and movies from both PCs, using the M1 Mac as sort of an access point through Tailscale which I already use.
I want:
- Plex Server 24/7
- Nightly backups from my main W11 PC to what I am planning on is a RAID 1 setup with the 2 HDDs (Note: I already have a 14TB WD external hdd that does nightly Veam backups).
- Storage that is easily accessible from all my personal devices
I am currently stuck between the Terramaster D4-320 and the OWC Thunderbolt 4. I know the OWC is its own system so it would render my M1 Mac kinda useless. In that case, would the D4-320 be good enough for my use case?