Storage Recommendations for Family's media

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My family have lots of photos and videos and I want make sure it doesn’t get lost. I want add more storage to my pc but don’t what to get. I was planning to get some HDDs but after reading some post I got reminded that whey make a lot of noise and seem to be less relabel compared to SSDs.

The plan is that I’m temporary going to put them in zfs mirror becuase I can only buy two in this moment and than switch them to raidz1 when I have enough money to add another drive.

I going to have a SAMSUNG 990 EVO SSD 2TB in their house just in case. have to follow the 3-2-1 rule

What should I get; my pc isn’t going to be on 24/7 but those drives will be moved in a media server at some point which will be on 24/7.

note about current setup. i have a amd x3700 with a asrock x570 extreme4 with both nvme slots used and 7 sata unused; a HHD is use one of the 8th with my backup of my some of my/my family’s photos/videos and some linux ISOs. The top pci slot is used by a 1080ti.

I’m considering of getting this D3-S4510 1.9TB for about 220 USD but might have to refund them after a quick inspection to use if they have been used or not. I also considered just buying regular consumer nvme ssds (990 evos) but I would have to use pcie to nvme card or sata to m.2 adapters which I haven’t had any experiences with. Which would you recommend if not either of these than what do you recommend? the intel enterprise drive will last a long time from the look of it but it twice the price and might be consider slow at least in benchmarks.

HHD

5tb out of 8 used

  • 300GB of photos and videos
  • 1.1tb blue-ray rips
  • snapshots of my linux pc
  • 3.3tb linux ISOs

storage needs, most a reminder to my self but could help

Fam #1 
- 512 GB 

Fam #2
- 256 GB

Fam #3
- >256GB or >128 GB

Right before I posted this I had the dumb idea to just replace my HDD in my pc with my family photos. Should I do so right of the bat I am going to have to do raidz1 of the bat and spend more money on having to buy a total 5 drives but is there any problems that I do foresee with doing this method.

I appreciate the time you spend to read my post and sorry for the lack spell check. Might do some post later once I have more details about another project with long distance security cameras. and asking which router to pick and access point.

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HDD’s are no less relabel than SSD’s

As the failure for a HDD is typically linear, where an SSD is abrupt and difficult to recover

Are you booting VM’s off the NAS or wanting to?
If so, SSD’s for the win.
Else, HDD will be perfectly fine

This is assuming 1gb ethernet connections as all your workloads are mostly sequential.

If you can swing it, a couple mirrored NVME drives would be great for family photos/videos to reduce access times dramatically, but the rest would live happily on HDD’s. Take your pick:

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If you are looking at a NAS, at low capacities (< 20TB) the Flashstor 6 is pretty much unbeatable in the value you get for the money:

Draws less than 25W, 2x2.5 GbE, size roughly like a Playstation 2, 6 bays, up to 48 TB of storage (though that will cost you a shitton of money), silent and with 3x 4TB SSDs for roughly $200 a piece, you have 8TB of redundant + live storage.

Though, that will set you back $1050 so not exactly the cheapest option.

If we are talking cold storage HDDs are better. As for all backups, consider the 3-2-1 strategy, 3 backups, 2 different media, 1 offline.

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My Backup target is a (neglected) Odroid H4 with two 8 TB HDDs (BTRFS Raid1) stuck in its two slots. Once a week it gets to write stuff, then it basically goes back to sleep again.

Like @TryTwiceMedia said, HDDs tend to fail more gracefully than SSDs. The other question you need to answer for yourself is if you need the performance gain from using SSDs. If your NAS only has 1G network, then you don’t need SSDs, unless your NAS also hosts VMs.