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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Eskel5 on 2025-10-18 22:17:53+00:00.

TLDR Datahoarding is a big passion of mine. I went from a 12TB drive to a 112TB Unraid server

I’ve been a Datahoarder for over 5 years now and it’s my biggest hobby these days. I started off with a 12TB Western Digital drive in my main PC and spun up Plex on it. I didn’t leave my PC on 24/7. I’d just use Plex when I wanted to.

Fast forward a few years and I ran out of storage on that hdd so I swapped in a 16TB drive I used to use as backups. I probably filled that up I imagine.

I ended up building my first NAS last year with older hardware from spare parts. I upgraded my main build from a 8700k to a 7800x3d and used that 8700k for my NAS. I added in two 12TBs and one 16TB drive to it. I started off with Windows 11 + Stablebit Drivepool for a month or so then I wasn’t so into it so I swapped to Unraid. Switching to Unraid was probably one of the best decisions I’ve mad with my server experience.

I spent maybe 11 days carefully migrating from Windows 11 to Unraid to copy all my data over last year. I think I had 16-18TB to copy over but it was a long process with other things I had to do too. I got a 18TB parity drive and precleared it for 3 days.

It might have been 6 months ago that I discovered the arr stack and I set it up on Unraid. I ran into a lot of issues with corruption on those apps but after I learned how to set it up correctly it’s been doing well for months.

I’m at 94% used storage now on my server. I want to parity swap my 18TB drive to a 28TB from Serverpartdeals.