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Building a NAS: how many HDDs / SSDs?
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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
As it was mentioned, there is no real need for SSD caching unless it is required by your workload. In any case, you should be able to configure caching later if the performance of HDDs wouldn't satisfy your needs.