Hello,
for a hobby project (limited budget that is ), I'm in need for a storage solution.
The project is about archiving and analyzing websites.
Every month, I'm generating around 100GB of zipped files which I need to analyze two times soon after downloading and again later on, maybe.
At the moment, I use my Laptop for that and then, manually move the archived files to two external 2.5 HDD that I got out of old laptops (2 times for having a backup).
I'm fine with a slow transfer speed
The storage doesn't have to be online all the time
I would like to be able to scale easily
I thought about buying 4 - 8 500GB 2nd hand drives and plugging them into an existing tower and installing FreeNAS and switch the tower on on demand - mostly for learning sth about FreeNAS and using a pool of disks.
Alternatively, the price per GB for 2nd hand 4TB is only a bit higher and I'd need only two disks which would make things probably easier.
What would be your suggestion for a non critical / hobby / learn project?
What would be your suggestion, if that project would scale up and even generate some money later on?
for a hobby project (limited budget that is ), I'm in need for a storage solution.
The project is about archiving and analyzing websites.
Every month, I'm generating around 100GB of zipped files which I need to analyze two times soon after downloading and again later on, maybe.
At the moment, I use my Laptop for that and then, manually move the archived files to two external 2.5 HDD that I got out of old laptops (2 times for having a backup).
I'm fine with a slow transfer speed
The storage doesn't have to be online all the time
I would like to be able to scale easily
I thought about buying 4 - 8 500GB 2nd hand drives and plugging them into an existing tower and installing FreeNAS and switch the tower on on demand - mostly for learning sth about FreeNAS and using a pool of disks.
Alternatively, the price per GB for 2nd hand 4TB is only a bit higher and I'd need only two disks which would make things probably easier.
What would be your suggestion for a non critical / hobby / learn project?
What would be your suggestion, if that project would scale up and even generate some money later on?