So I am looking to do the following things:
I was condsidering 4x6TB or 4x4TB to allow for futher expansion, the Seagate IronWolf Pro are about £585 for 4x4TB, 5 year warranty with the Synology 1019+ 8GB RAM 5 bay NAS. With a somewhat powerful CPU to transcode 1080p streams (a few at least).
How does that sound in terms of a setup and what RAID array would you choose? I was considering RAID1 but not ideal for 4 disks. Otherwise RAID 5. Its old school but I dont expect I will be hammering any of the drives with data and mostly reading data.
- Run Plex Server
- Store all digital family photos to show in Plex
- Playing movies/tv shows through Plex with transcoding as an option
- Backup photos to remote service periodically i.e Google Drive
I was condsidering 4x6TB or 4x4TB to allow for futher expansion, the Seagate IronWolf Pro are about £585 for 4x4TB, 5 year warranty with the Synology 1019+ 8GB RAM 5 bay NAS. With a somewhat powerful CPU to transcode 1080p streams (a few at least).
How does that sound in terms of a setup and what RAID array would you choose? I was considering RAID1 but not ideal for 4 disks. Otherwise RAID 5. Its old school but I dont expect I will be hammering any of the drives with data and mostly reading data.