Since 2017, I’ve been using two single bay 8TB WD My Cloud (JBOD) at about 80% capacity. One drive as primary media for Plex, the second as a backup drive. When the backup drive recently failed, I decided to take better safeguards for my data with the following:
Shared Folders / Volume1 / MOVIES
Shared Folders / Volume1 / TV SHOWS
Shared Folders / Volume1 / MUSIC
Shared Folders / Volume1 / PICTURES
Shared Folders / Volume1 / VIDEOS (Home)
Once I buy a second drive, it will look like the following.
Shared Folders / Volume2 / MOVIES
Shared Folders / Volume2 / TV SHOWS
Shared Folders / Volume2 / MUSIC
Shared Folders / Volume2 / PICTURES
Shared Folders / Volume2 / VIDEOS (Home)
Soon afterward, I will buy two more 10TB drives for the last two open bays and set them up as RAID 1.
Shared Folders / Volume3/ MOVIES
Shared Folders / Volume3 / TV SHOWS
Shared Folders / Volume3 / MUSIC
Shared Folders / Volume3 / PICTURES
Shared Folders / Volume3 / VIDEOS (Home)
Shared Folders / Volume4 / MOVIES
Shared Folders / Volume4 / TV SHOWS
Shared Folders / Volume4 / MUSIC
Shared Folders / Volume4 / PICTURES
Shared Folders / Volume4 / VIDEOS (Home)
- Install a new 4-bay Synology DS920+ NAS
- Run Plex server on the NAS rather than on my PC.
- Increase all future drives as 10TB each.
- Of the four-bay NAS, two drives will be defined as JBOD, two will be defined as RAID 1. I understand there are other RAID options for protecting data and increasing read/write speeds.
Shared Folders / Volume1 / MOVIES
Shared Folders / Volume1 / TV SHOWS
Shared Folders / Volume1 / MUSIC
Shared Folders / Volume1 / PICTURES
Shared Folders / Volume1 / VIDEOS (Home)
Once I buy a second drive, it will look like the following.
Shared Folders / Volume2 / MOVIES
Shared Folders / Volume2 / TV SHOWS
Shared Folders / Volume2 / MUSIC
Shared Folders / Volume2 / PICTURES
Shared Folders / Volume2 / VIDEOS (Home)
Soon afterward, I will buy two more 10TB drives for the last two open bays and set them up as RAID 1.
Shared Folders / Volume3/ MOVIES
Shared Folders / Volume3 / TV SHOWS
Shared Folders / Volume3 / MUSIC
Shared Folders / Volume3 / PICTURES
Shared Folders / Volume3 / VIDEOS (Home)
Shared Folders / Volume4 / MOVIES
Shared Folders / Volume4 / TV SHOWS
Shared Folders / Volume4 / MUSIC
Shared Folders / Volume4 / PICTURES
Shared Folders / Volume4 / VIDEOS (Home)