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Look, there's 2 things here:
and
Which are you wanting?
For the first, just consider capacity (you'll fill it) and noise (spinning away all night)
For the 2nd, really really consider SSDs as they're silent and fast.
RAID1 is just a convenience factor, so whatever you do, don't get too caught up in the drive mechanics as you'll have a full backup (right?) and can restore your data at a moment's notice.
Honestly, honestly, just go for something large & quiet and you'll be fine.
And yes, SSD for the OS
Who says NAS to mean anything other than Network-Attached Storage?!?
"When I say left, I kinda mean right half the time almost."
I agree, the acronym NAS does indeed mean that.
But would you call a Hypervisor a NAS?
When I say NAS, I mean NAS. Bulk storage remotely accessible on the network.
When someone starts talking about all their VMs/Containers, I understand that to mean something else... I'd prefer to use a generic term like “server” instead.
So it will be the latter, as it will run nextcloud, a couple websites i have, a pihole and possible game servers when the need comes again. For the websites i plan on using the mass storage as a backup to the sites' data, so the actual running files will stay on the ssd running the os, currently considering proxmox actually.
for nextcloud i am not sure, since i use it to sync, and 'backup' (i know its not meant as a backup program), so it would need lots of random r/w, but it cant fit on the os ssd as that would get too large, currently only have a 250gb ssd on hand for the os.
Id love to get ssds instead of mass storage hdds, but theyre simply 3 times as expensive for the same storage which is out of budget for me.