Building a PC, How possible is it to have a SSD + RAID ARRAY inside?

[oliver3294]

My wife and I have a photography Business on the side. I am looking into building a Gaming PC for Photo Editing, Video Editing, and some gaming and graphic design work as well.

With this build I am looking to do a few things. 1) Have a m.2 SSD as my boot drive and where i keep all of my software and any games I play a lot on. 2) I would like to have a 2-4 drive raid array for photo and Video storage and to be able to access that raid array remotely if needed.

I don't know if this is even possible. I looked into getting a NAS but if i can do 2 things at once it would save a lot of money.

 

[Evvvvv]

Put a NVME m.2 in a PCI-E slot, something like Samsung 960 Evo 500GB, and then the HDD's put in RAID. I'd say get 2 2TB drives and put them into RAID configuration, and you will be good to go But keep in mind not all hard drives need to be in RAID, just the ones you choose. But some RAID configurations require 2 or more disks

 

[photonboy]

WDMYCLOUD has some offerings that can be accessed remotely, and locally you connect to the router via Etherenet so it's accessible to all local computers.

https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Ultra-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B01AWH05GE/ref=pd_sbs_147_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01AWH05GE&pd_rd_r=XCWT6R2YWQKQWPX4ZKP9&pd_rd_w=N85cl&pd_rd_wg=njgB0&psc=1&refRID=XCWT6R2YWQKQWPX4ZKP9

So that's 8GB (4GB usable with RAID1) and if a drive fails you can swap one out... I use mine for movies and backup Image of PC's.

So one way to go is:
1) WDMYCLOUD in RAID1, and
2) SSD (Samsung 960 EVO has excellent value and is 3200MBps sequential reads. 500GB for $200USD), and
3) 2TB+ HDD

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