Hey everyone,
So I can't make up my mind about the NAS build I am planning.
It starts with SSD or HDD. I would go for HDD because its still about half the price/TB compred to SSD but power consumption is considerable as I add drives...
I live in Germany and pay 0,43 cents per kWh so yea... for a 20W system that is more than 70 Euros per year.
Also I have a Celeron J1900 board that I want to use but then again I am unsure if SSD Storage is just wasted on such a low-power board.
I plan on storing up to 10TB of research-related data (right now it's only about 2 TB but i like to have headroom) and use the rest for other things like game saves, movies, etc.
I thought about just getting two 12 TB drives and running them in Raid 1 for now to see if I am actually going to use this system and if performance is ok...
on the other hand I could splurge on 4TB m.2 SSDs and an Asus hyper-card but that would be kinda ridiculous wouldn't it? Also I wouldn't have parity/redundancy...
What are your thoughts on this? what else should I consider?