Getting the most out of my old NAS

[Gooner]

I currently have a WDCloudMirror NAS drive. It has twin 2TB drives in Raid 1, so I have 2TB available. Currently, I only use the NAS to stream my ripped CD music collection to my surround sound system using its Twonky media server and am using less than 0.5TB of the NAS capacity. The NAS is old but has been very reliable. However, it is limited in its software offering. I am considering buying a single Hikvision DS-2CD2347G2-LU (ColorVu) 4MP PoE IP security camera and a Pi500+. I would run Frigate NVR in a Docker container to manage the camera. I could also run Jellyfin Media server in another Docker container as an upgrade to my Twonky server, leaving my NAS as just a storage unit. It would all run on wired CAT 6e cabling. I have developed this project with Co-pilot, but as I have had mixed results with Co-pilot’s recommendations, I would appreciate some human comments.

 

[bbunge]

That camera has an onboard micro SD card slot that will take up to a 500 GB card. So, external storage is not really needed. The RPI500+ only has a 256 MB storage. If you want to use a RPI for storage you could use a Pi4. For an NVR I recommend Zoneminder which can be run on a RPI or an old PC. I currently have 5 Hikavision cams and two Axios and store a months worth of events, motion detection, on a 512 GB SSD. All but one cam are PoE and my outdoor cams all hace micro SD cards for backup motion storage.
Give Zoneminder a look. It is FOSS and has really been getting better over the years. And keep your recordings off of cloud storage!