Everyone's needs are different, but over time with the loss of a couple of disks, I started to hate running RAID5 or 6 with HDDs. It became an exercise in how f

Everyone's needs are different, but over time with the loss of a couple of disks, I started to hate running RAID5 or 6 with HDDs. It became an exercise in how fast could I replace a disk before the next one died and would the rebuild actually work or not - although, it always did. Also, the hot-swap case/cage I had with all the SATA connectors and power connectors seemed kinda flaky - it was very cheap. So a couple years ago, I downsized to a single 2TB SSD in a smallish ATX case - and another in a completely different machine that gets rsync'd every 4 hours. My nas is now just my last desktop's hardware with two SSDs - one boot, one larger storage running plex, smbd, backups of misc stuff on cron, duplicity backup to the cloud, etc on Ubuntu. If I didn't have this extra hardware, I'd probably just run two medium powered NUCs with a nvme boot disk and a bigger SSD for storage. It's all very very simple and I have it setup so I can run some LXC containers should I want to do some dev work there, but I usually have other hardware for that anyway.