IAmOrion
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- Sep 24, 2022
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Hi there, super new to "Proper" NAS's... I say "proper", because I currently have a single old 2TB hard drive connected to a Raspberry Pi using OpenMediaVault which is set up as a dead basic NAS - a simple network share that I can access from multiple computers.
Bear with me whilst I explain how I've come here... I've recently been digging into a better NAS solution that I can add to as finances allow. I'm super poor, and reading all these posts with people having 6 x 10TB drives or 6 x 3TB drives etc depresses me as I can only dream of starting like that!! ha. After lots of research I came across a video by "Tech By Matt" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpJViwtct5g). He is basically using an HP Z420 he's cobbled together. I started adding parts to my eBay basket / Amazon cart to start gauge costing - excluding storage at this point. During my days of searching I stumbled across a HP Z420 complete Workstation that worked out cheaper than trying to cobble one together! So I purchased, a HP Z420 (I believe V1 Motherboard), Xeon E5-1620 v2 3.70Ghz 4, 64GB ECC DDR3 (4x16GB) RAM, 600w PSU, HP Z420 Case, NVidia NVS310, for £200. No storage. I have 2 x 120GB Samsung 850 SSDs - which I read/heard I should set as the boot drive(s), with the second being a boot redundancy or something? (I guess I'll figure that out as I progress at the setup stage). I also have a 2.5Gbps NIC card.
Now comes the physical storage, I could only afford 2 x 4TB WD Re-certified hard drives. Actually they were re-certified Elements Desktop drives, and I've just pulled apart and got the drive out of. The 2 x 4TB cost me £110 total, compared to £220 had I of purchased brand new. (I've previously bought re-certified from WD and 5 years later the drive is still working great). Oh to be a popular YouTuber who just gets sent like 100TB storage as sponsorship eh!!
Anyways, that finally brings me to my actual question!... I want redundancy, so as I understand it, my 8TB of actual storage, would result in 4TB usable storage.
I want to be able to expand and grow my storage as time goes on and when I can eventually buy another 2x set of what ever storage I can afford at the time. Min 2 x 4TB, but ideally larger if poss. So how would I go about setting this up? What do I need to do that will allow me to increase my storage as time goes on whilst keep the redundancy feature etc. I swear when I was younger there was only RAID0 or RAID5. I'm sure the others existed of course, I'd just never heard of them! Jumping into this rabbit hole my brain is overwhelmed and overloaded with information and I'm so confused as to the best setup for my usage scenario and future expandability. Just FYI, I'm on the spectrum, and I really struggle with troves of information! It overwhelms/overloads me as I've mentioned.
Without coming across "lazy", I do a million times better following a guide for example, where someone is saying "get this, do that, this video walks through the easy setup"
Since the hardware is all "new to me" there's no data that needs saving or messing with etc, it's a new/fresh/clean setup. I just want to make sure I set it up correctly for my usage scenario
Any advice / help is very much appreciated. MTIA
Bear with me whilst I explain how I've come here... I've recently been digging into a better NAS solution that I can add to as finances allow. I'm super poor, and reading all these posts with people having 6 x 10TB drives or 6 x 3TB drives etc depresses me as I can only dream of starting like that!! ha. After lots of research I came across a video by "Tech By Matt" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpJViwtct5g). He is basically using an HP Z420 he's cobbled together. I started adding parts to my eBay basket / Amazon cart to start gauge costing - excluding storage at this point. During my days of searching I stumbled across a HP Z420 complete Workstation that worked out cheaper than trying to cobble one together! So I purchased, a HP Z420 (I believe V1 Motherboard), Xeon E5-1620 v2 3.70Ghz 4, 64GB ECC DDR3 (4x16GB) RAM, 600w PSU, HP Z420 Case, NVidia NVS310, for £200. No storage. I have 2 x 120GB Samsung 850 SSDs - which I read/heard I should set as the boot drive(s), with the second being a boot redundancy or something? (I guess I'll figure that out as I progress at the setup stage). I also have a 2.5Gbps NIC card.
Now comes the physical storage, I could only afford 2 x 4TB WD Re-certified hard drives. Actually they were re-certified Elements Desktop drives, and I've just pulled apart and got the drive out of. The 2 x 4TB cost me £110 total, compared to £220 had I of purchased brand new. (I've previously bought re-certified from WD and 5 years later the drive is still working great). Oh to be a popular YouTuber who just gets sent like 100TB storage as sponsorship eh!!
Anyways, that finally brings me to my actual question!... I want redundancy, so as I understand it, my 8TB of actual storage, would result in 4TB usable storage.
I want to be able to expand and grow my storage as time goes on and when I can eventually buy another 2x set of what ever storage I can afford at the time. Min 2 x 4TB, but ideally larger if poss. So how would I go about setting this up? What do I need to do that will allow me to increase my storage as time goes on whilst keep the redundancy feature etc. I swear when I was younger there was only RAID0 or RAID5. I'm sure the others existed of course, I'd just never heard of them! Jumping into this rabbit hole my brain is overwhelmed and overloaded with information and I'm so confused as to the best setup for my usage scenario and future expandability. Just FYI, I'm on the spectrum, and I really struggle with troves of information! It overwhelms/overloads me as I've mentioned.
Without coming across "lazy", I do a million times better following a guide for example, where someone is saying "get this, do that, this video walks through the easy setup"
Since the hardware is all "new to me" there's no data that needs saving or messing with etc, it's a new/fresh/clean setup. I just want to make sure I set it up correctly for my usage scenario
Any advice / help is very much appreciated. MTIA