[AFMUG] Large Single Volume Data Storage Options

[Nate Burke]

I'm getting ready to install a 20+ camera system for a customer that 
want's 9-5 Full Time Recording with 30 days storage.  So he can go back 
and check work comp cases to see if employees were really hurt on the 
job. My Calcs come in at needing around 4-5tb of storage to accomplish 
this, so I'd like the server to have 6-8tb of storage for some 
overhead.  Rather than building out a server with a bunch of drive bays, 
RAID Card and mirroring/striping drives etc, I was wondering if anyone 
has used an External JBOD enclosure for this?  I'm thinking like a DROBO 
unit or similar.  Any Caveats to watch out for?  Is there too much disk 
IO to have this work well over a LAN, USB 3.0, or Thunderbolt 
connection?  What other (Affordable) options am I missing to get a bunch 
of storage in a single volume for the NVR?

Nate