Why do you need a nas enclosure?I understand where you are both coming from. I had wondered about the viability of using optical storage, purely from a practical point of view (having to keep swapping discs, for one thing!), and the sheer volume of discs needed.
I suspect "spinning rust" is the way to go, but I was hoping not to have to spend too much. NAS enclosures (even unpopulated ones) aren't cheap, as evidenced by the Synology box I already have in place - and by the time I have added sufficient storage it's around the one thousand GBP mark.
Still, with these things you have to take into account the cost of replacing the data (which in some cases, would be impossible, since it is historic and cannot be regenerated), so I don't suppose there's that much choice. I will go and check the piggy bank; where did I put that hammer
That aside, I am still interested in what recommendations there are for writing to BR/DVD/CD with a Pi. Occasionally I need to "publish" some of the data, and rather than put it on a memory stick or external drive, it would be useful to write to optical for some people...
Use the drives as USB drives, copy stuff to it, done. Buy more rust disks as you fill them up.
If you want to go the nas way, for a couple of hundred, maybe less, you can get a second hand blade server from eBay, redundant disk channels, redundant psy, raid, etc, etc, etc, etc, build you own nas with it using TrueNAS or similar. Replace drives with larger ones as needed. You can even add external disks to those too.
There is always AWS Deep Glacier for stuff you wan to put away but not access often.
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