If you are worried about data recovery or losing a disk on a raid 5 system, then use raid 6 which has 2 parity drives so you can actually lose 2 drives and still keep working. For casual use around the home for sharing music and video files, an external raid 5 (Or 6 if you can find it) will be the cheapest and still provide the read speed that you need. Ripping will be slower but who cares, you put a dvd in and come back in 15 mins to eject the dvd.
watch out for home cloud drives, they are slow, painfully slow.
You can create your own NAS drive by hooking up a drive on the back of your router that you can share. Pretty easy and no cost. I use a dedicated server with most of my hard drives and SSD’s attaches to it to do all file sharing and backups from that server In the early mornings. It’s main task during the day and night is running Roon, and soon Plex.
watch out for home cloud drives, they are slow, painfully slow.
You can create your own NAS drive by hooking up a drive on the back of your router that you can share. Pretty easy and no cost. I use a dedicated server with most of my hard drives and SSD’s attaches to it to do all file sharing and backups from that server In the early mornings. It’s main task during the day and night is running Roon, and soon Plex.