I have a lot of data, most of it which is stored and backed up offline. What I’d like to do is set up a large network storage system in my basement so I could bring all of that data online and do something useful with it.
I’ve got about 20tb worth of screenshots and videos archived and backed up to hard drives. I’ve got another 1tb worth of personal documents, photos, etc. backed up and connected to my main. In my basement I’ve got a Windows Server with 6tb of storage that holds my music, DVDs, comic books and ebooks.
So what I was thinking of doing was buying a Synology DS1511+ 5-bay NAS, two of the Synology 5-Bay expansions for the DS1511+, and 15 3tb hard drives. At today’s prices, the total for that would be $4,213, and give me 36tb of storage given the way I’d end up configuring it with RAID. Double that price to purchase the same hardware to mirror the storage offsite and I’d be looking at $8,426 total for an end cost of $234/terabyte.
Are there better/cheaper ways to build the sort of storage solution I’m looking for?