The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kaitlyn2004 on 2024-12-26 21:09:18.

Looking to replace my synology ds413j, which still functions okay as a backup device but is otherwise quite sluggish and limited hard drive support - basically at the max for that.

It’s 99% photos, otherwise documents. I use stuff like Dropbox and Google photos but I may shift towards truly using the NAS as my personal cloud.

I need approximately 8TB and accounting for some reasonable runway, let’s just say 12-14TB. Outside of possibly adding video in, I would expect 14TB to last me TONS of time.

Unlike over a decade ago, can easily get a single 20TB drive. So I figure I could just put those in RAID 1 and have more storage then I know what to do with.

So what reason would I choose a 4bay (or more) model? I’ve heard that if you actually have to rebuild the array, it can take suchhh a long time plus there can be failure during the rebuild. I’d already have another backup copy AND probably a cloud backup I could restore from if that was necessary…

So yeah, given I don’t need 20TB+ of available space, what am I losing out on if I only went with a 2bay?