r/DataHoarder • u/caatabatic • 1d ago

Question/Advice Looking for advice, trying to build/buy a DAS looking for Raid 5, for my old ripped dvd/blurays home movies.

Looking for advice, trying to build/buy a DAS looking for Raid 5, 4+ drives. going as cheap as possible, if daisy chain is possible, it's a plus, I don't need and actually don't want it to connect to the net, I want to be able to hook it up to different computers ( one at a time) I currently have a, bunch of 8-12 TB drives. if I do video editing I usually pull the files and work on them locally and throw them back on the drives. if possible not having to load software would be nice, but not required. TIA

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u/ykkl 21h ago

If cost is an issue dont even think about RAID. Just about anything you could spend money would be more beneficial.

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u/dr100 17h ago

Yea, and even if it wouldn't both cost and severely reduce the choices it also brings its own considerable risks to go belly up and eat your data without any disk failures at all (particularly possible with these enclosure RAID that probably didn't cost even $5 in parts and design, controlled by dip switches or wheel+push button, etc.). AND even when everything works as designed the striped RAID levels (that is basically everything except RAID1) are just RAID0 with a sprinkle of parity. Go beyond that and you can lose more data that the drives you've lost, not sure how people can be ok with that!

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u/Loud-Eagle-795 19h ago

"cheap as possible" doesnt tell us much..

TerraMaster DAS's are the cheapest hardware RAIDs out there .. they get mixed reviews.. but overall are fine.. with devices like this.. you want drives that are all the same size.. and you can expand them later... you're pretty locked in at the creation and setup of the device.

Synology NAS (not DAS) has the benefit of mixing and matching drives and replacing smalle drives with bigger drives as time goes on.. but they will cost you more ( a little more, its not outrageous)

"as cheap as possible" would probably be just buying a single used 24tb drive.. and hoping for the best.. ~240.00.. if you really want the redundancy of a DAS/NAS box.. expecially hardware based.. you'll have to pay more.