I currently have a Plex Server on a stand alone computer, and have a NETGEAR ReadyNAS 204 4-Bay running 4x4TB drives in Raid-5 (12TB avail.) for my movies and tv to push to the computer, and I have maybe 1TB free and its closing fast!
I now am trying to find a solution on how to grow my media. The hard drives are only a year or so old (I ported over a lot of media onto these when I bought them) so I dont want to just buy upgraded drives. I am wondering if I buy an additional NAS for storage and new drives, or if I go another route.
I currently have 2x Dell PowerEdge R620 servers lying around from some contract work I did, but I don't necessarily want to run rack mounted servers in my house unless I have to (would also then have to buy a rack and find out where to put it). I thought about potentially building the Plex Server there, but again, only so many drives available as I dont have a rack mounted storage server. I also don't want to spend Oodles of money either. The current ReadyNas and 4x4TB drives I got for maybe $900-1000.
I would love input from you guys, as I feel I am making a jump from a smaller media collection to something a bit larger, thanks in advance!!