Can anyone guide me (a newcomer) to the subtle art of storing everything I possibly want in a NAS? Also how do I build a NAS from scratch? Thanks for any help at all!
If you are completely new, I would recommend a Synology. Very easy to use.
If you truely want to do one from scratch truenas I think is the goto project, (I personally go with pre-built solutions of external HDD or Synology/QNAP NAS).
It really depends on what your ultimate goal is.
NAS is great for centralized storage for multiple devices to access. But isn’t totally necessary if your just looking to store data and access that date on a single device at a time. don’t discount buying two external hard drives. one for storage and the other for backup.
If you really want a NAS Then there are many options. You could go a prebuilt solutions, Synology, QNAP, TerraMaster etc…
If you have an old computer laying around, that can be an option as well (Although power usage could be an issue. )
The biggest mistake I see new comers make, is thinking putting multiple drives together in a redundant configuration (RAID) is a backup. This isn’t the case you better off going with 2 single drives and have a daily backup between the two of them.
YouTube is your friend. So is piracy. And torrents. And a must, get cheap HDD’s.
Why cheap hdds and not ssds?
HDDs are cheaper than SSDs per GB
Shuckable HDDs are even cheaper per GB
I’ve purchased several 18TB WD Red Pro HDDs for $249.37, or $13.85/TB. I’ve also purchased and price tracked shuckable HDDs and don’t recall ever finding a better $/TB than that.
SSDs are unnecessarily expensive when you’re looking at hoarding dozens or hundreds of terabytes of data. You won’t be gaming off your drives you use for hoardings so there’s really little benefit except in transferring stuff off them. Most of what people hoard tends to be media or documents which are find being played directly off even a slow modern HDD.
