Best external media storage and streaming?

[LifeIsLikeABoxOfRocks]

My fingers are crossed for you and I just hope your Drobo is configured with 2 parity drives and not just 1?

If it's just one, the chances of resilvering 4x8TB drives without throwing up further errors is almost none existent at which point you'll regret ever thinking redundancy was a good replacement for a backup.

For what it's worth, I think a Mac mini with some external drives it a better media/storage solution than any of the off the shelf NAS products at a similar price point, although not as good a solution as a purpose built NAS, running something like FreeNAS

I've got 2 parity drives on my FreeNAS server, but still have a 2nd one as a backup to the first!

I've been running Drobo's since 2008, Never had one kill a drive, and never had a Drobo fail. All the Negative talk about Drobo, mostly comes from users that never owned one(imo).

 

[Crazy Badger]

My comment wasn't aimed specifically at Drobos. Any NAS using such large drives and only 1 parity drive is destined to a catastrophic failure when one dies. Chances of an error resilvering are inevitable along with the loss of some, if not all of the data