On Thu, 24 Apr 2025, jeremy ardley wrote: > On 24/4/25 13:03, Gareth Evans wrote: > > I would prefer to buy one off the shelf than build my own, but that's an > > option too. > You can go to Dell but when you look into the actual specs you end up paying > a > lot more to get something that fits your need.
I bought a second hand Dell T5820 which did the job for me. > Then get one or more Western Digital Red hard drives (accept no substitutes) > . > These can provide your NAS storage for many years without replacement I thought that RAID meant "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks" but I guess that under pressure from manufacturers Inexpensive became Independent. If you run a RAID you accept that replacements will happen, so I don´t see the advantage of buying expensive (I know, I should say Independent) disks for a personal system. A cheapo Seagate in one of my RAID 1's now has well over 90000 hours. Only the WDs have failed. Roger
