Use cases

Start from a storage problem you recognize.

These are editable baselines for planning capacity and recovery—not prebuilt hardware kits.

Family photos

Protect a growing family photo library

Plan capacity, a redundant primary copy, and a separate recovery destination before photos outgrow scattered drives.

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Media library

Plan a Plex and media-library NAS

Model media growth, usable capacity, bay pressure, and recovery boundaries without treating the array as the only copy.

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Self-hosted homelab

Plan storage for self-hosted services

Separate application data, databases, snapshots, and backups before choosing a pool layout for a growing homelab.

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NAS expansion

Plan an existing NAS expansion

Check whether replacing drives, adding bays, or starting a second storage target is the cleanest next move.

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