Until recently I stored my media library in folders. A tedious way to manage a collection.
I set up Jellyfin on my main machine as a test. I enjoy the experience and want to migrate to a NAS, for better reachability in my network. I am a beginner when it comes to networks.
I currently use a single 20TB HDD (current usage 80%) and another 4TB HDD is around somewhere.
I was wondering what my options and recommended solutions are.
Should I get 1, 2, or more 20TB drives? I want some redundancy, but don't want to invest into too many drives.
Looking forward to any tips or resources to read up on. Thanks.
On a synology NAS you can use SHR-1 raid (which is basically raid 5) with just two disks. In pratice that acts like raid 1, but you can just add more drives and it will act like raid 5.
I would at least add two additional 20TB drives and put them into a raid 5. That gives you around 40TB of usuable space and you can have one disk failure.
Kinda depends The parity has to be larger than your largest drive. but you can have it move data around between fast and slow drives as it is used. It can do pretty cool stuff with a few clicks. It amazes me every day.