> The goals of my NAS setup are: > When hardware breaks, I can get replacements from the local PC store the same day. That wouldn't be my M.O. I don't want to

> The goals of my NAS setup are: > When hardware breaks, I can get replacements from the local PC store the same day. That wouldn't be my M.O. I don't want to go to a local PC store. The ones remaining are all either expensive, sell shit, or do both. I'd order from Amazon or whoever is cheapest according to a local price comparison website, and receive a replacement next day. It also costs less time having to do shopping (heck I even order groceries online, saving time). Besides, with warranty, it'd take longer than same day replacement. Now, if the guy was running mission critical data solely I'd say 'OK', but nope: > For over 10 years now, I run two self-built NAS (Network Storage) devices which serve media (currently via Jellyfin) and run daily backups of all my PCs and servers. As such, it seems a silly requirement for the average content someone serves with Jellyfin. I use 4x 4 TB HDDs in ZFS RAIDZ2 (running Ubuntu under Proxmox) with one enterprise grade SSD for OS and ZFS cache. All that Jellyfin data doesn't have to reside on any SSD. Not in this setup, and in most setups for home users: neither. You also don't require HA for such, to the point where even RAID is kind of silly. I use restic for daily backups to a NAS in the same city, a Synology with RAID1 btrfs. But I don't back up any media served via Jellyfin. Seems silly, and I don't have fiber upload speed as of yet. The internet has backups of that. Usenet servers, for example. None of these servers have a UPS, but in case a power cut the enterprise SSD (a Samsung NVMe costing more than 2x as much as a consumer version of same amount of storage) ensures the data is consistent. Both systems use FDE. I also have an offsite, offline backup of our most important data. It is encrypted at rest but not I don't regularly rebase which is kind of stupid. But that is on me. Either way, this fellow wants to have some kind of silent setup (for reasons) and yeah then SSDs make sense. But if you want value for GB/EUR or akin, even with the extremely low SSD prices of recent and even with the higher energy prices, then HDDs are still worth it. Especially for data as content served via Jellyfin. I'm pondering about upgrading to more than 1 gbit for LAN but for now I don't see it is worth it. Also given my server (MicroServer 10 Plus) only has two PCIe and one is used for PCIe to NVMe and other for iLO I don't have the bandwidth available, a disadvantage of my current setup. I suppose I could use a USB to 2.5 gbit converter if USB could saturate it but then I'd use USB for high data transfers. It appears to me that because my switch is managed, pair bonding would be a better approach. Which the Synology also supports.