Im a computer junkie with a major digital hoarding issue, on top of that i run a home based computer repair business that more often then not lately has been data recovery jobs.
so i image a lot of clients computers with acronis, clonezilla or deepspar depending on the situation.
Anyway, currently I have shelves of labeled hard drives 4 hard drive"Toaster style usb3 adapters" as well as seven externals that I use and growing because I'm already out of space
(this year alone I've gone through 7tb)
For a long time this organizational system has bothered me ideally I'd like to consolidate all my data into big drives and to have one box
Unfortunately finding NAS's with more than four bays is harder than I expected and finding ones that are more than eight bays that have sata connectors is also a challenge.
so it makes me think building a nas is my best most affordable option.
Ideally what I'd want is something with redundancy that supports multiple sized hard drives and expansion that way I can move data around clean up a drive and slowly migrate everything into this NAS, while also making i bigger by adding new empty drives as needed/available (like a drobo)
Preferably I'd like at least one machine and have a fast connection to it for work so my imaging can be quicker as network transfers are normally slow for me even with cat6 and gigabit nic's
I was hoping that maybe I could do a combination DAS/NAS via thunderbolt for this but no open NAS platform seems to support that, so unless I'm missing something I think my next best option is a direct network on a secondary nic to a machine with (probably with 10gigabit nics)
alternatively i suppose i can image to a thunderbolt drive then network transfer that image while working on other things but that kinda ruins the idea of one box to rule them all
anyway I'm open to suggestions I don't have a set budget but I'm aiming to be affordable if possible
so i image a lot of clients computers with acronis, clonezilla or deepspar depending on the situation.
Anyway, currently I have shelves of labeled hard drives 4 hard drive"Toaster style usb3 adapters" as well as seven externals that I use and growing because I'm already out of space
(this year alone I've gone through 7tb)
For a long time this organizational system has bothered me ideally I'd like to consolidate all my data into big drives and to have one box
Unfortunately finding NAS's with more than four bays is harder than I expected and finding ones that are more than eight bays that have sata connectors is also a challenge.
so it makes me think building a nas is my best most affordable option.
Ideally what I'd want is something with redundancy that supports multiple sized hard drives and expansion that way I can move data around clean up a drive and slowly migrate everything into this NAS, while also making i bigger by adding new empty drives as needed/available (like a drobo)
Preferably I'd like at least one machine and have a fast connection to it for work so my imaging can be quicker as network transfers are normally slow for me even with cat6 and gigabit nic's
I was hoping that maybe I could do a combination DAS/NAS via thunderbolt for this but no open NAS platform seems to support that, so unless I'm missing something I think my next best option is a direct network on a secondary nic to a machine with (probably with 10gigabit nics)
alternatively i suppose i can image to a thunderbolt drive then network transfer that image while working on other things but that kinda ruins the idea of one box to rule them all
anyway I'm open to suggestions I don't have a set budget but I'm aiming to be affordable if possible