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Yes I was thinking something like TrueNas or OMV would do the trick. I feel that a general headless distro could be harder to set up.
But what about the raid copies for example? Because i need to attach some external storage, is usb okay for this?
USB isn't good for RAID, it's unstable.
Do you currently have more than 8 or 12TB of data? Because you can buy drives that size today, no need for RAID under those capacities.
I recently purchased an 8TB drive for ~$100 on Amazon. Yes, it's used, but comes with a 3 year warranty. I'm fine with that warranty length, as drives don't last forever, and I'll be replacing drives due to growth anyway.
Don't overlook RAID 1 - mirroring. With large enough drives this is a viable first step to some redundancy (though it's really intended more for failover). Simply replicating your data locally to multiple drives, and backing it up offsite should give a lot of redundancy.
The big challenge with local redundancy is that it's not backup, so replicated bad changes can wreck all local copies. Backup, however, gives you multiple copies of data and incremental changes (if configured that way).
I should check but i think i have 4/5x 1Tb NAS HDD, 1x1Tb enclosed SSD (now plugged in via ubs to the synology). Now that I think about it yes, I should probably buy some more but all my data is just 1/2 Tb in total.
Yea, buy three 4TB drives, one is master, the other 2 sync from master (can mirror or use a sync tool).
Then get a cloud backup service.
Shop for drives here.
@dan00 USB is not ideal. A direct SATA connection would be better for system stability. USB HDD's will work but TrueNas and OMV might display warnings discouraging the use of USB storage. If you can manage to break out some PCIe lanes you can use a PCIe to SATA board, resulting in a more stable setup.
Got it… but I don’t know what do you mean with break out some PCIe lanes sorry ahah Like open the case and find a free PCIe port?
@dan00 That depends on what is available internally. I can not find exact specifications on the M.2 slot? I get the impression that it might be SATA instead of PCIe. Can you find out what interfacing the M.2 supports?
If it is PCIe you can use a M.2 to SATA adapter to create several more SATA ports to connect hard drives directly. This works better than external USB drives. Much more reliable.
@dan00 If the M.2 supports only SATA then you could use a different kind of adapter to turn that M.2 into a single SATA port and connect a large(r) 3.5 inch HDD outside of the laptop enclosure.
With PCIe you can create several SATA ports and create a small (software) RAID array.
Laptop specs
I think it only supports SATA, but I should open it up and check it personally. Thank for the tips man.