I've been thinking lately about building a NAS system with some old computer parts I have here. I'm not really sure what I'm looking for though since I haven't ever used a RAID array.
I also don't know if it's really going to do what I want. Right now I have a 2TB drive that's 90% full, a 750GB that's getting there, and my 1.5TB "Storage" drive decided to quit on me earlier this year. I am looking for a redundant storage system that I can keep all of my audio, video, and photo work. LF scans have really started to eat into my storage, but 36mp D800 files and 50-80GB of video files for a commercial shoot are killing me too.
I suppose that my work flow will be scan/shoot -> RAW / TIFF files edited and then filed away onto the NAS and one copy of my JPEG files will stay on my computer for easy access. What's important is the redundancy - if a HDD goes bad I want the RAID array to be able to recover itself. I don't remember what RAID type that is. Probably looking at putting 3-4 1.5TB or 2TB drives in there, and maybe the whole thing in a fire-proof cabinet if possible.
Anybody have one of these systems, or built one? I'll probably cross-post this to a pro audio site but I figured I'd ask y'all as well!
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