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Hello, I plan to upgrade from my ReadyNAS Duo that served me well for 5+ years running 2x2TB in Raid 1. Consider to buy 2- or 4-bay (or even 6-bay hope not) NAS and it is for home use with small o...
You could put a suggestion in the Feature Request & Feedback subforum.
You could also make a request at rnxtras.com (not a netgear site)
(1) Bit-rot protection can be enabled on a share by share basis. Snapshots and bit-rot protection shouldn't be enabled on shares where there is a lot of data churn. They can lead to heavy fragmentation.
(2) You might be confusing disk encryption with network encryption. Encrypting the data on the disk will not make business sharing over the internet more secure. Disk encryption will make it less likely that someone stealing the NAS hard drives can get the data. If I were in your shoes I'd be looking at hosted web services to handle your business client sharing - it will probably offer better performance, and eliminates any chance that a business client can reach the other data. Part of the answer here depends on whether you have long-term relationships with your clients (e.g., is it practical to give them user accounts on the NAS or not).
(3) More volumes will not be more secure. The most significant security vulnerabilities allow access to the operating system itself. In-house web pages won't create extra risk unless you allow the NAS to be reached over the public internet.
(4) It sounds like you might be using share security. That is deprecated even on your duo, the current mode is user-security. Each user can have different access, and has his/her own password.
More volumes will not be more secure (repeat after me... More volumes will not ... :-) )
(5) You can't divide the RAID-1 array into multiple volumes. You can set the checksum/bitrot protection for each share though. If they are turned off on a share, then the extra overhead shouldn't be incurred. The performance loss is only on writes btw.
(5b) Same answer.
(6) The 300 series HCL has 6 TB drives, I am not sure why you are thinking only 4 TB.
(2) You might be confusing disk encryption with network encryption. Encrypting the data on the disk will not make business sharing over the internet more secure. Disk encryption will make it less likely that someone stealing the NAS hard drives can get the data. If I were in your shoes I'd be looking at hosted web services to handle your business client sharing - it will probably offer better performance, and eliminates any chance that a business client can reach the other data. Part of the answer here depends on whether you have long-term relationships with your clients (e.g., is it practical to give them user accounts on the NAS or not).
(3) More volumes will not be more secure. The most significant security vulnerabilities allow access to the operating system itself. In-house web pages won't create extra risk unless you allow the NAS to be reached over the public internet.
(4) It sounds like you might be using share security. That is deprecated even on your duo, the current mode is user-security. Each user can have different access, and has his/her own password.
More volumes will not be more secure (repeat after me... More volumes will not ... :-) )
(5) You can't divide the RAID-1 array into multiple volumes. You can set the checksum/bitrot protection for each share though. If they are turned off on a share, then the extra overhead shouldn't be incurred. The performance loss is only on writes btw.
(5b) Same answer.
(6) The 300 series HCL has 6 TB drives, I am not sure why you are thinking only 4 TB.
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