Well you said cloud - cloud to most of us here doesn’t mean on your systems, but a “cloud” of systems - i.e. not controlled by you.

Wow, that’s pretty malicious, and good to know about

As you said, RAID gives you a single unified storage pool from independent drives.

It also gives you some fail over if using RAID 6 with dual drive redundancy and hot fail over (which any modern RAID system has).

You can then divvy up the storage however you want. Single big drive with folders and file-system permissions, or split the pool into multiple logical drives, etc.

The world is your oyster.

For my needs I have a single big drive with folders, but only a single user on the RAID box has write permissions - and that’s an account from my file server.

The file server then handles shares, permissions, user names, etc, so I have a single point of user management and file access. Which isn’t really much different than what businesses typically do: storage management is separate from user/file management.

Lots of RAID systems today support LDAP, so you could theoretically manage user access on the RAID box, but I find that cumbersome, and prefer having a file server.

Setting up is the easy part.

Maintenance is where you spend time, money, effort.

No backup with PiHole?

PiHole can run redundant if you want. Does Technitium do this differently? Or more easily?

Good lord, 114!

And here I thought I was doing something at 10-20 TB.

You go!

OP posted his numbers and you think you know better.

Bet you’re fun at parties.

OP has published his numbers and you still think you know better.

What a riot.

My primary purpose for separating services is stability.

My file server is just for file services - so if my media server needs a reboot it doesn’t affect anything else, like my media conversion server, etc.

Preventing lateral movement is really a secondary benefit. If someone gets in, my ability to prevent lateral movement as a non-enterprise is pretty limited.

I still use separate user accounts for different purposes with heavily restrictive permissions.

Tailscale should provide everything you need. Then you can use whatever remote desktop/management tools you want.

Diskprices.com

I find it gives me some ability to plan.

And that’s why these products are a non-started in the enterprise world.

Data management and security is an entire organization in these places.

This is it.

It’s about risk management. If you don’t have a vendor to provide measured performance criteria, you have no idea how it will perform.

Businesses are data-centric. Without that data, a product effectively doesn’t exist.

You forget the legal angle. That’s really what drives this stuff (and marketing).

Wow, off grid and you pull that much.

Impressive.

Novell??

Holy cow that’s something I haven’t heard in forever.