need help with my storage delema

[thehardwarehacker]

Hello, i need help deciding on how to go about solving my impending storage problem. i have many drives ither in, or attached to my PC, and currently mot of them are between 50 and 90% full. because i dont often dump data as im a bit of an archiver, and local media consumer. i had been contemplating building a multi-use NAS machine using newer hardware, but because of the way ram prices had been, and dont appear to be settling down anytime soon, ive been holding off on buying parts. what i cant decide is: should i continue to wait, and see what the supply line, and prices do, or should i just 'invest' in a DAC or something of that nature. something i can just through some drives in, and clump them together for a massive pool. im looking for about 10TB, of usable space.

thanks in advance.

[ChatDaw]

That's a dumb question I guess but why not buy 2 or 3 more hard drives of 4 TB each and add them to one of your systems?

[thehardwarehacker]

On 12/2/2017 at 3:56 PM, ChatDaw said:

That's a dumb question I guess but why not buy 2 or 3 more hard drives of 4 TB each and add them to one of your systems?

i have thought about that as a solution, but if i end up having to physically move the drives for some reason, which i can honestly see myself doing, i wouldn't be able to break the raid w/out knowing 100% that everything i would need is off it. which is where the DAC idea comes in, i would be able to actually move the drives w/out the raid breaking, plus, it would act as a more friendly backup solution.

[seagate_surfer]

You could go with a dedicated NAS enclosure, a few popular vendors are Synology, QNAP, and ASUSTOR (ASUS' NAS storage division).

You might find some useful pointers and general wealth-of-knowledge from the people over at r/datahoarder as well. It's a fun sub.

Edited December 5, 2017 by seagate_surfer
Added Datahoarder link

[thehardwarehacker]

On 12/5/2017 at 10:17 AM, seagate_surfer said:

You could go with a dedicated NAS enclosure, a few popular vendors are Synology, QNAP, and ASUSTOR (ASUS' NAS storage division).

You might find some useful pointers and general wealth-of-knowledge from the people over at r/datahoarder as well. It's a fun sub.

thanks for that tidbit, its proven to be helpful so far. though the base of my question still has yet to be completely answered.