I want to assemble a NAS with a capacity of 20 TB using Ubantu Server. Advise me the best configuration

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I want to assemble a NAS with a capacity of 20 TB using Ubantu server. Kindly advise me the best hardware cnfiguration. I will use it in my studio and will access it locally and also remotely over a lease line from my editing lab. and mainly use for storing audio video file of large size. Its urgent.
 
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First of all there is no way to set up 5X4TB drives with any redundancy. If you want to set up 5 INDEPENDANT drives in a NAS as a BACKUP(not the only copy) of your data from various locations you can do that with any motherboard with 5 free SATA ports.

I wouldn't recommend any system of that size with 4TB drives and obviously not in SPAN or RAID0.
See my above post for the minimum safe configurations IMO.



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What is your current backup and failover location look like?

For a system of this size, you'll need something like 16 X 2TB SAS/SATA Drives in RAID 6(or ZRAID2) or 16 X 3TB Drives in RAID 10.

You'll need a SAS controller with at least 4XSAS or minSAS ports.
 
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Now I have at least 10 TB of data in individual machines and want a central storage / NAS to store all the data. Can i go for a Mother board with at least 6 SATA ports? I am planing to install 5x4TB HDD with free NAS. Is it possible without usin any SAS controller or SATA Raid controller?
 
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First of all there is no way to set up 5X4TB drives with any redundancy. If you want to set up 5 INDEPENDANT drives in a NAS as a BACKUP(not the only copy) of your data from various locations you can do that with any motherboard with 5 free SATA ports.

I wouldn't recommend any system of that size with 4TB drives and obviously not in SPAN or RAID0.
See my above post for the minimum safe configurations IMO.



 
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