>I made the mistake of building a NAS for one at one point but it turns out that you need to be really diligent about documenting the setup as rebuilding a raid

>I made the mistake of building a NAS for one at one point but it turns out that you need to be really diligent about documenting the setup as rebuilding a raid5 array when it inevitably fails can be very difficult if you don't remember what the actual configuration was. This is actually the reason why I bought a NAS for my primary storage at home. Just because if it crashes, I will have support or I can just buy another one with the same configuration and make it work. If it crashes, the last thing I want to do is have to fiddle with settings around my data.