So I have a bunch of old 3.5in mechanical hard drives with varying capacity (2tb, 4tb, 6tb, etc). I want to be able to put it all in a single enclosure (something like a Synology perhaps) and use it as a plug and play or backup device so that it shows up as 1 drive. Would that be possible?

• snapraid

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  A backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures

I'm using this 5 bay DAS. I see it is going for $260 now. I bought it for $210 last March. When paired with snapraid and DrivePool it makes for a good and cheap media backup solution. I keep a local copy of some files as well as a cloud copy for important stuff.

• mergerfs

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  a featureful union filesystem

Mergerfs will do the trick of unifying them. You can use snapraid if you want a RAID-like setup but you'll need another disk for parity.

• InfluxDB

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