I'd love some advice from the data-hoarding hivemind! I currently have a ton of video projects and footage sitting on random hard drives around my office—about 15TB worth.
Since Black Friday is around the corner, I figure it's a good time to set up a RAID 5 enclosure instead as "cold storage" for my finished projects.
I'd likely need 20-25TB to start, but it'd be great if I could add new disks down the line to keep it somewhat future-proof. Since it's storage, speed is less of a concern than cost and storage space. I'd love to keep everything around $1k or below if at all possible. It doesn't need to be network-attached or anything and if it makes a difference, I'm on Mac.
Anybody care to point me in the right direction? I won't pretend I'm techy, this is not my area of expertise so I'd be incredibly grateful for any input or advice!
What about this QNAP for a direct-attached storage solution (it also works standalone without a NAS, which is how I’d be using it): https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1454549-REG/qnap_tr_004_us_qnap_tr_004_4_bay_usb.html
with these drives: https://www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-x20-st20000nm007d-20tb/p/22-185-011?Item=22-185-011&cm_sp=product-_-from-price-options (the only good NAS HDD BlackFriday deal I've seen so far).
Overkill on storage space for sure, but at least somewhat future-proof..? What do you think?