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It's either that or build a bomb shelter.

I doubt there exists a consumer grade HDD DAS box that can transfer faster than 5 Gbps I'm hoping it's free to restore 64TB by BackBlaze. I'll need to read the fine print before enrolling. I'll need to calculate the optimal DAS drive capacity and bay count combo. Perhaps a bigger DAS would be...

BackBlaze will be my backup

I also want some redundancy in case one drive dies on me.

I currently have 30TB of videos and want to future proof my storage needs.

So 22TB drives here we go. Thank you. I plan to back up the DAS to BackBlaze, btw.

So if you wanted to use 100% of the capacity of a 4 bay RAID 5 config, would you buy 4x 16TB drives (=64TB total) or would you buy 4x 22TB drives (=88TB total)? (with Windows 11 + QNAP TR-004 + hardware manages RAID 5)

So if don't want to divide the array into multiples volumes or partitions, to keep things simple, then buying more than 64TB of capacity (i.e., 4x 16TB drives) would be a waste of space. True? Also... Does this 63TB volume limit include or exclude the extra drive space needed to maintain RAID 5...

AI Google says: "The maximum volume for a single volume on a QNAP TR-004 DAS is 63 TB for non-server versions of Windows. For volumes larger than 63 TB, QNAP recommends using the Windows Server operating system" My question is: If I use the QNAP TR-004 storage system configured to hardware...