2x 8TB SSD JBOD in PC or really expensive NAS solution

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Just looking into a next data solution. Not had any issues with my 1 drive NAS with 16TB HDD, I also got a cheap UPS after a few power outages a while back which has worked great.

Samsung 870 QVO 8TB can be had for £320.

Redundancy is overrated. What happens if a bit flips on a 50GB video? What about dust on a blu-ray? Neo fails to enter the Matrix or not a lot would be my guess. I back it up. I could move the UPS to my PC.

Pros: fast, no more QNAP OS that keeps getting hacked, silent, no need for 2.5/10GBE upgrades, bonus 300GB not having QNAP OS anymore, 16TB HDD is reused for backup duty
Cons: no parity (don't have that now), double chance of data loss with 2x JBOD (it's backed up)

We must be close to sensible 16TB SSDs, but currently they're £2000.

edit: I've got about 12TB data atm on the NAS so still some space and not urgently requiring replacing.
 
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Personally I'd still keep all bulk data outside of my main pc and I'd go with unraid as well... Depending on the qnap model you might even be able to use unraid on it.
 
Much depends on how important the data is and how fast you need to access it. Personally I’d be looking at something like FreeNas with multiple spinning disks, SSD cache and ECC memory. The flexibility and security is great to have and with some carful hardware choices, not a lot of money.

Would avoid a pair of large SSD’s for long term storage especially in JBOB.
 
I have recently moved from a Synology to Unraid and could not have been happier. Able to use previous pc hardware, able to add further storage and easy redundancy to boot
 
ok thanks. I'm now going down the Unraid/TrueNAS Core rabbit hole :)

I do have my old Zen 3 PC that could be reused.

I kinda want to get away from HDD as I don't really have that much to store (12TB not 120TB!) and wanna have all my data in one fast place, at the moment split small files to 2nd NVME as HDD is too slow. I do get that files can bitrot for various reasons and I do actually wanna be able to scrub and check data is all good.

I like the QNAP/Synology enclosures for quick drive install/uninstall and some can have TrueNAS installed which is cool so currently toying with that idea.
 

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I noticed SSD prices seemed to reach lowest prices about 2 weeks ago and if anything seem to be going up a bit, but maybe due to pre-black Friday sale shenanigans. Doesn't hurt to look :)
 
I'm not as technically minded but all my media files are on SSDs. Cool, quiet and fast. Health check is always on 100% as well as the content doesn't require any moving etc.
 
keyser van someone said:
ok thanks. I'm now going down the Unraid/TrueNAS Core rabbit hole :)

I do have my old Zen 3 PC that could be reused.

I kinda want to get away from HDD as I don't really have that much to store (12TB not 120TB!) and wanna have all my data in one fast place, at the moment split small files to 2nd NVME as HDD is too slow. I do get that files can bitrot for various reasons and I do actually wanna be able to scrub and check data is all good.

I like the QNAP/Synology enclosures for quick drive install/uninstall and some can have TrueNAS installed which is cool so currently toying with that idea.
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Transfer speed will come down to bus the speed. HDD’s are plenty fast enough to saturate most network types for instance.
 
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