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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...
The stated 40TB capacity is so stated because of the size of currently available drives. There is actually no reasonable known limit as larger drives become available. (The file system limit is 15EiB (16 x 10^18)) BTW, 40TB would be 4 x 10TB but NOT using any redundancy. If you put in two 10TB and use the default RAID redundancy, you'll only have 10TB of space. If you can swing it, you might want to consider a 6-bay unit since you effectively lose one drive to redundancy.
Is the NAS for backups only, archive, or items being worked on? If it's for archival or items being worked on, then you are going to need a backup plan as well. With your IT background, I'm sure you have heard the saying "If you only have one copy of something, you must not think it's important." If it's just backups, you'll have to decide if your backups need backups. Cloud backup is one thing to consider, but how fast you would need the data back is a big factor there.
In addition to ReadyCloud, you may want to have a look at ZeroTier. I find it superior to ReadyCloud...
Good to know there is no reasonable known size limit except for current HDD limitations. As newer and larger HDD are made, nice to know the box can handle them.
NAS will be used for for backups, archive, and items I'm working on. I have HDD's all over the place. My 1st thing is to organize all the HDD's and add them to the NAS to manage these units of work. I will be implementing a backup plan to follow, so I have multiple generations (GDG's) of backups. Once I get my 1st NAS implemented, I plan on acquiring a 2nd NAS to backup the 1st NAS (DR - Disaster Recovery) - offsite at a 2nd location, just in case, have 2 copies minimum.
Thanks for the ZeroTier backup software tip.
Sounds like you have a plan. I, too, first invested in a NAS to organize multiple external drives.
When the time comes for the offsite NAS, definately take a look at ZeroTier as the way to make them talk to each other.
After careful thought, I think I'm going to take the advice of a few fellow members and do the following:
1 - Upgrade from a RN424 diskless 4 bay to a larger capacity RN426 diskless 6 bay. For future use.
2 - Upgrade from 10TB to 12TB Seagate IronWolf HDD's. These are the largest size currently supported by Netgear.
3 - Populate 1st 2 bays in RN426 6 bay controller with two (2) Seagate Ironwolf 12TB HDD's initially. 4 empty slots available for expansion and growth.
4 - This would give me 12TB of useable/reuseable space right out-of-the box using the default RAID config. Drive 1 mirroring to drive 2 in the background.
5 - This would give me 12TB of protected/replicated/duplicated data. Easy to recovery/rebuild in case of hardware failure - one (1) HDD failure.
6 - Using the default RAID config would provide a much easier learning curve. Learn as I go...
Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.
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