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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Bullzeye2448 on 2026-06-04 11:07:50+00:00.

Hello everyone,

I have been growing a movie/TV collection. I upgraded to a 16tb hdd a few years ago but that is almost full now. I have run this system by putting the HDD in a mediasonic probox and connected it to my PC through USB. I have now bought 2 28tb hdd's and plan to RAID 1 them so I have some form of redundancy and don't lose all my movies if an HDD fails. I had plans to stick both of these HDD's in the probox and use windows software to RAID 1 them but in my research I discovered NAS and also realized this probox is very old and probably could use replacing.

NAS seems like a really cool concept but I am thinking that the DAS route is fine for my needs right now. Do you think it would be worth switching to an NAS or just stick with the probox for now? I would appreciate hearing what y'all think.