On 4/24/25 02:58, Roger Price wrote:
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.
When I buy HDs, I usually get two different brands to minimize the
chance that they'll die at the same time. For instance, in this machine
the main HD is a WD and the backup is a Seagate of the same nominal
capacity. They're not in a RAID but AFAIK there's no reason they
couldn't be.
