My current 2TB WD Black data drive is almost full, so I need to upgrade to a larger drive (along with upgrading to a larger backup drive as well). I think, rather than going to 4TB drives, I'm going to go to 6TB drives.
I'm also building a new house which will have cat 6 cabling in each room, routed to a central network hub in a closet. I'll also have a home wireless network. I'd like to have all my music, pictures, videos, etc. available to view/play on TV's in the house, or on any wireless devices connected to my home network. Should I, rather than just having an external 6TB backup drive, back up my data drive to something like a WD My Cloud EX2 which would have a pair of 6TB drives in Raid 1 (mirrored)? That would give me a backup (actually a pair of backups) and also possibly accomplish the goal of having my data available on my home network. I'd also have my data available "in the cloud" if I needed to access files away from my house.
Am I on the right track here? Or am I thinking about it all wrong? Would love to hear from the community on this.
Thanks in advance!
I'm also building a new house which will have cat 6 cabling in each room, routed to a central network hub in a closet. I'll also have a home wireless network. I'd like to have all my music, pictures, videos, etc. available to view/play on TV's in the house, or on any wireless devices connected to my home network. Should I, rather than just having an external 6TB backup drive, back up my data drive to something like a WD My Cloud EX2 which would have a pair of 6TB drives in Raid 1 (mirrored)? That would give me a backup (actually a pair of backups) and also possibly accomplish the goal of having my data available on my home network. I'd also have my data available "in the cloud" if I needed to access files away from my house.
Am I on the right track here? Or am I thinking about it all wrong? Would love to hear from the community on this.
Thanks in advance!