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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...
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.
This sounds good, but you do also need to have a backup plan in place. RAID isn't enough to keep your data safe.
dasd wrote:
Drive 1 mirroring to drive 2 in the background.
For me, "background" implies that it's a low-priority task that might not happen right away.
It's not a background activity in that sense. With RAID-1, writes are done in parallel to both disks. RAID-5, etc are more complicated, but still the RAID information is updated immediately whenever the data is changed.
Just ordered a ReadyNAS 420 Series - High-Performance Business Data Storage - Diskless Model RN42600 and two (2) Seagate IronWolf 12TB's HDD's. Everything should arrive this Sun Apr 1, 2018. Yikes that's April Fool's Day. Didn't plan it this way, just worked out this way...
Thank you for all your feedback, tips, and advice. Much appreciated. Onward,
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