Reddit reviews QNAP TR-004 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure Direct Attached Storage (DAS) with hardware RAID USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C
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High-speed direct-attached storage Device via USB Type-C for Windows, macOS and LinuxUse the TR-004 As external storage for NAS backupExpand the capacity of your QNAP NASSupports up to 4 2. 5/3. 5 inch SATA drives at GbpsHardware RAID supports RAID 0, 1, 5, JBOD, and individual disksLockable drive Bays
I would lean toward a Raid 5, as it is a more efficient use of redundancy space. You'll have to buy more drives but they can be smaller size, net working out to a similar price. A barebones DAS option might be this one: https://www.amazon.com/QNAP-TR-004-Enclosure-Attached-hardware/dp/B07K4RC7X9.
G raid and Promise also make excellent enclosures but youll pay a premium. OWC is a middle option if you have a Mac.
> What rotation?
Any properly managed Tape Library requires Tape Rotation.
>A library with onedrive goes for 1500 euro and a second drive will be another 800.
You will not have a Multi-tape drive for drive for $1500 in the US, looking at ebay the used market is running $1000-1200 for single drive LTO-6, you might find a LTO-4 muti-tape drive for that price.
>That is def affordable, and as much as a QNAS.
Base 4 Drive USB qNAP $199 + $140 ea for consumer 8TB Drives and you have 16-24 Usable TB for under $800, Add $150 if you want a NAS unit which still comes in under your tape drive with no cassettes
Where did you read that you can only get 4TB with raid 1? But if you're going for more than 2 drives, it's irrelevant anyway.
Also I have this running on my wife's computer (she's the photographer, I'm just the computer guy):
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K4RC7X9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
With 4x10tb shucked easystore drives in Raid 5. Good performance, not too much lost to overhead.
I don't know how big of a cache you need for video. Maybe someone else can help with that part.
You can always go for THIS and just add your own drives.
Just a thought. This way you can get cheaper larger 4tb drives in a small form factor.
Thanks for your help, everyone. I've determined that I need a 4-bay DAS to run in RAID 5. I'm looking at this guy for the hardware RAID. As I mentioned, I already have 2 external 8 TB Seagate drives. One of them failed after about 2 years, which I plan on replacing. It was never dropped, but it was unsafely ejected a few times by accident, which seemed to cause it to take significantly longer (over an hour) to mount and become usable on my Mac when it would happen. Should I take them out of their enclosures and put them in the new enclosure or should I look at better quality drives? Thanks again
I've lost 2 WD reds in the past 6 months on my mediasonic. I'm going to replace with a QNAP Raid Enclosure that seems to have higher reviews. Once caveat is that you can't move the drives from the mediasonic to the QNAP so I need to buy new drives so I'll probably upgrade from 4x6TB running in raid 5 to 4x10TB running in raid 5.
If the servers are in AWS, you can use their Snowball (https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/) to grab the data and have it sent to you.
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Alternatively, get one of these (https://www.amazon.com/QNAP-TR-004-Enclosure-Attached-hardware/dp/B07K4RC7X9). They're just disks you can attach using USB. Grab 4 drives, flick it to RAID 5 (so you have 1 redundancy) and you're good. 4 10TB disks should come out something around 21TB worth of space.