What enclosure (server?) is that? I'm trying to figure out how to set-up my next surveillance network. I just learned of WD Purple for cameras. I would also like a NAS for movies, data, etc. It appears you also have yours set up to do both? Do you like it/recommend it or recommend something else? Thnx!
It's a Lian-Li case (343-B) that was never available in the U.S. so I found and ordered one from Norway. Even with the shipping it was a great deal and worked perfectly into the plans I had for a Large Plex Server (You'll find me hanging out on the Plex Forums often as well). I really love the case. I have 11 fans in it being run from two digital controllers. It runs so cool that I only have 4 of the fans running at any given time (blowing onto the back of the 14 drive trays). Very nearly silent... believe it or not... which was my first criteria since it resides in the middle of my home theatre. I could have gone with a Rack-Mount solution, but I didn't want my theatre to sound like a Google Data Center.
I have 12 3TB WD Reds on board, 6 running redundant mirrors of the 6 others, and 1 3TB WD Purple for my cameras.
I've heard so many horror stories about RAID arrays, and Drive Pools crashing to the ground because one drive was installed on a Tuesday while the motherboard wasn't facing East or there wasn't enough sacraficial blood spattered on the controller or the blah, blah, blah... Drives have become so cheap that my redundancy just works. And my O.S. (Win10) handles the C, D, E, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z drives just fine. I have a little program that mirrors data drive-to-drive at 3:00am, 3:15am, 3:30am, 3:45am... well you get the drift. I also have dual 512GB SSD's, so even the O.S. drive is redundant (at the moment I'm still figuring out how to do this). If I lose a drive, I swap the mirror to the other drive bay, shove another drive in the bad bay, and wake up to a rebuilt server. No fuss, no muss.
Of course, so far... that hasn't happened.
And yes... if the whole thing goes up in smoke because my studio burns down... I expect I'll be worried about more important things than the fact that I have to re-rip all my Andy Griffith Show, Gilligan's Island, Hogans Heroes DVD's and every episode of M*A*S*H since the invention of Green Army Canvas.