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New to NAS world
Hello all - New to this NAS stuff. I'm a detail guy - so I've spent this past week doing some deep diving into NAS stuff on the net. My technical background: Retired 2nd time. I have an IT back...
dasd wrote:
5 - New HDD Config - Two (2) Seagate IronWolf 10TB eSATA 24x7 small business/home office hard drives. These are NOT the high-end Enterprise IronWolf Pro drives, although the cost is only ablout $35 more each for the IronWolf Pro's.
With RAID-1 (or the default XRAID) that will give you 10 TB of actual storage. 4x10TB XRAID/RAID-5 will give you 30 TB. If you forego RAID redundancy to maximize storage, then I suggest using one volume per disk (jbod).
dasd wrote:
Netgear Remote PC software will grab that one & bring it to NAS here. Cool. Nice feature-rich gear…
Remote is the name of an older VPN service that was discontinued last fall. The successor is ReadyCloud.
dasd wrote:
4 - New NAS config - Empty (diskless) Netgear RN42400 NAS - I've narrowed my choice down to the Netgear High Performance 4 bay diskless box - Model RN42400. Max addressibility of 40TB.
The datasheet uses the largest compatible drives when it is published. 12 TB models on on the hardware compatibility list now, so the RN424 can handle 48 TB. That will go up as larger SATA disks come on the market.
dasd wrote:
3 - I'm curious as a new NAS user - if I've narrowed my NAS vendor down wisely - to Netgear - from the field of top players like Synology and QNAP?
This is of course a Netgear forum. I've never owned a Synology or a QNAP, so I have no first hand experience with either.
What services do you intend to deploy? Just storage with remote access? Or do you want other things (media streaming for example).
All good information. Thank you for your reply. Learned a lot from my 1st reply, especially the 40TB limit is based upon HDD architecture and not RN424xx internal addressibility. If I decide to bump up the HDD size from 10TB to 12TB, nice to know the internal 64-bit architecture can handle greater than 40TB total.
I'm aware that Raid 0 buys zippo protection/redundentcy and Raid 1 provides protection/redundentcy, but good to hear that confirmed. Raid 0 = all of it. Raid 1 = 1/2 of it.
Anywhere I see legacy Remote PC I'll know to reference the fresh RemoteCloud software.
I intend to deploy storage - local & remote, maybe some streaming down the road - not sure how rich in streaming apps are developed for Netgear. Once I have the storage admin under my belt, I might give the streaming side a whirl. Who knows, after all that, I may try as a music server, too, since I see some IOS and Apple iTunes support. Synology and QNAP are rich in music & streaming app software.
Hope this answers your questions and helps.
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