>>106205919 (OP)
>think Raid 1 will be good for someone like me.
raid 1 is for two disks, if you get a 4 bay nas you'll lose half the capacity so you should use raid 5 instead
qnap and asustor are fine, you can't go wrong with either of them, avoid synology as they're speedrunning enshittification
I recommend x86-based nas if you want to run various software on it and use it as a general purpose server.
use CMR hdd ONLY, if you can't buy datacenter-grade, drives get some made for nas, avoid the gamer shit as they're SMR drive even if the cost way less.
avoid western digital nas drives as they now have a S.M.A.R.T attribute that will return an error once you've reached the time-on warranty period, it's pure insanity and border-line illegal, they're a scummy company, avoid them like the plague, they're also replacing some wd red nas drive (therfore CMR) by SMR drives at the same price under the same name, fucking scumbags.
get toshiba n300 or n300 pro if you can, seagate ironwolf and ironwolf pro are fine too
avoid drives under 4TB, 8-12TB is a good starting point.
if your nas will run near you then noise WILL be an issue, 5400rpm drives like the seagate ironwolf under 10TB are fine, avoid 7200rpm drives if noise will be an issue, seriously, don't thing you'll manage because you won't.
if your nas fan makes noise then buy a noctua fan, problem solved.
5400rpm hdd will saturate a 2.5Gbps link so you have no reason to go 10Gbps, 1Gbps is 120MBps which is fine too but if you move big files a lot 2.5Gbps will be more confortable, assutor has many nas with 2.5Gbps nic.
you most likely do not need transcoding so even if they have an hdmi port just ignore it.
I recommend encryption and if you go this route make sure that the nas has a TPM or similar hardwar vault capable of unlocking the disk on boot otherwise you'll have to type the password to mount the disk at each boot, it coul be an issue.
I also recommend an UPS, hdd are very sensitive to power loss.
