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.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    At least get one more and set up a raid1 so each drive contains a copy of the data.

    The downside is this limits your expandability as converting between raid levels is not easy and you don’t get any additional space.

    If you get 2 more drives you could go for a zfs1 or raid5 to get the extra space and a drive in case of a failure.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    With 20 TB drives, I would have concerns about a drive failure during a rebuild. I suggest at least 3 drives and a config that can handle 2 failures.

    Unless everything is replaceable.

  • featuredEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Look into Mergerfs+Snapraid. I’ve recently started using this setup for my media drives and it works great. Mergerfs allows you to treat any mixture of drives as one giant pool, while snapraid allows you to define parity drives for that pool. However snapraid requires each parity drive to be as big as your largest data drive. But this is a flexible and economical setup if you already have disks