Quick Guide: Pros, Cons, and Setup of Non-Redundant Plex Storage

I’ve been looking into ways to scale up Plex storage without spending a small fortune on extra parity drives and RAID setups. I came across a pretty straightforward breakdown on non-redundant plex server storage and why it’s becoming popular for budget home media servers.

The main draw seems to be getting 100% usable storage space from every drive, lower initial hardware costs, and zero hassle when expanding by adding individual disks as needed. Obviously, the trade-off is zero drive tolerance—if a disk fails, that specific data is gone unless you re-download or restore it from an offsite backup.

For those of you running JBOD or single-drive pools for non-critical media (like movies/TV shows that can be replaced), how do you manage disk health or external backups? Do you prefer taking the risk to maximize raw storage, or is RAID/unRAID parity a non-negotiable for you? Curious to hear how others balance cost vs. redundancy!