Hey everyone, I’m pretty new to larger scale storage and I’m in the process of building a NAS. I got a 10 bay PC case and some components for super cheap, and that will be the main storage machine once I finish building it. It will be 10 3TB drives in raid 6 to start and I’m using HexOS. I think I have that all figured out, but backing up the NAS data is what I’m wondering about.
For now I really only have the ability to do one local backup with an optiplex 5040MT that I already have. The NAS will have a capacity of 24TB to start. I’m thinking of getting two 24TB drives for the optiplex to keep mirrored as the backup target. Is this a logical thing to do?
For context: My current storage needs are roughly 12TB between all the random drives I’ve accrued over the years. I’m hopping to centralize everything and have double the capacity of what I have now so I don’t have to think about it for a while.
I’m open to any and all suggestions, so please feel free to share any ideas. Thanks!