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    [–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    You can get a cheap QNAP 4 bay with 4x 12-18tb refurbished enterprise drives for a 36-54tb RAID5 for like sub $800 (as low as $600) tbh. Don’t know if you have the budget for that but the speed will be faster and you’ll be solidly protected from data loss on the unit.

    You could even do a 2 bay with like 2x 24tb for a combined 48tb or backed up 24tb for idk $400?

    [–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Whoa-Dang! I foresee a business expense in my office's near future. FWIW, I've been pondering setting up a server, for various projects.

    [–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    I set up my first RAID5 a few months ago and let me tell you it was trivially easy. Don’t regret it for a second. I have not shifted my server over to it yet but that is in the works.

    For context it’s a 42TB RAID5 (4x 14tb ultra stars) and all in I was like $650. I got really lucky during Black Friday and got those drives for like 110 eagles a piece or something

    [–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Thanks for the encouragement.

    [–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Good luck! Holler if you have any questions. Though most of the stuff is pretty easy to search luckily

    [–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

    Well thank you! I have various parts & peices, that I think is sufficient to set things up. I should say, I'm not in the Linux environment. And from what I've read it looks so much easier than it would have been in the 90s when I started using computers in earnest.