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Hi all.
First of all a massive thank you to all the wonderfull people that keep on improving Kodi and let us enjoy all this great software.
Jumping right to the point, i'm a former Kaleidescape owner but found that some of the limitations on media playback where not for me. I'm searching for advice on what would be the best solution for storage for my movie collection. Currently it's taking up about 22tb and growing... i'm using a i5 nuc as a player with openelec for a frontend and i'm open for sugestions, a part list would be epic to help me out.
What do u think about hdd external raid enclosures? Atm i only require acess from a single player to the collection.
Kind regards to all.
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The Synology NAS is almost a "turnkey" solution. If you can afford to load it up with 6TB drives, that is the way to go. There's always a bigger drive on the horizon, but currently 6TB are king.
If you're a tinkerer (and I suspect that you're not if you came from Kaleidescape) then the options are far more varied. For instance, I'm using a Windows-based FlexRAID setup with 24TB, but it grew incrementally. Now I'm just swapping smaller drives for larger drives as the need arises. It works great if it's set up properly, but it is definitely not as easy to maintain as the Synology solution.
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i would go for Hitachi or HGST instead of the wd red NAS drives but you can mix them up, just never from the same vendor batch.
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poofyharguy, the 6TB von WD in the RED Series are perfectly fine as are the 5TB... and as for Veronica, I would vastly prefer WD over Seageate (especially avoid the cheap "Archive" series, these are NOT for NAS devices).. as for HGST, their offerings are sadly the most expensive of the bunch, which is why usually WD wins out in a price/reliability/performance matrix...
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I never mentioned Seageate for NAS, the red ones are kinda famous but i prefer Hitachi or HGST it is worth every penny. I have read alot and also have my experience in the IT field and WD have disappointed me in the past (mostly 2.5" laptop hdd), hitachi hasn't, even seageate hasn't. My main PC has a 7200rpm Seageate 1TB drive over 4 years with heavy usage and keeps working great.
It's all about likes and experiences, but if you read as i have about the WD red drives... well i'm not alone.
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As for HDDs, HGST are going to probably be the best.
However, WD Reds work really well, especially for NASs. I have quite a few all in different sizes and have never had any issues or failures. (knock on wood)
I wouldn't touch Seagate drives anymore.