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need4speeds, Good suggestion - Thank You!

Over the last few months I purchased 5 WD 8Tb easy store USB drives. I bought these, and "shucked" 4 of them for use in my Synology DS-918+ media NAS. I got lucky; all 4 that I shucked contained the Red NAS drives, with the 256Mb cache :) So I now have the majority of my movie/media collection...

liberty610, Hope you don't mind me following along. I am about to become a "NAS newbie" and the PR4100 is a front runner that I am thinking about purchasing (the other one I'm considering is a Synology DS918+). Have already purchased 4x WD 8TB hard-drives :)

Ralphort, Thanks for your suggestions! One more A related question; I have four WD 8Tb external drives that I am "shucking" to use the WD reds for a NAS. I am liking your suggestion of using a 10~12 TB internal drive for another layer of backup. I am now wondering if I could install the...

Thanks - Ill check out Macrium

Thanks! I'm looking at the Icy Dock MB662U3-2S R1

So I am in the process of ripping my BR movie collection to a pair of WD 8tb external drives (one is for manual backup). By the time this process is complete I have estimated I will eventually need to migrate to a 10Tb~12Tb solution for my entire collection. I am currently using PLEX on my...

I am planning to put approximately 10Tb of movie and music media on to a 4- bay NAS (with 4 x 4Tb Red drives) configured as RAID5 or RAID10. I have been advised that I should have one additional level of backup should the NAS box become problematic. With these RAID configurations I don't...