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It sounds a little too involved and expensive for what I need. Think of me as someone who would just go and but a single external HDD, but wants something that adds some sort of protection so a single failed drive doesn't loose everything.

What would you recommend then? Raid 6? Do you have any recommendations on my primary questions?

I need to get a storage system that gives me at least 30TB of usable storage and features redundancy for failed drives (I'm currently thinking 4x 10TB+ drives in RAID 5 would be best). I've currently got a 36TB WD My Book Duo external drive set up in RAID 1 giving me ~18TB usable storage. This...