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Calvin386
Mar 31, 2018Aspirant
ReadyNAS 212 Back Up Question
I am using my NAS (Raid 1, 2 - 4 TB drives) attached to a R7000 Netgear router as a hard drive for my Microsoft Surface Book 2. As you know, there is not much onboard memory(128 or 256 GB) on solid st...
- Apr 04, 2018
Calvin386 wrote:
So it looks like I have a plan now. I will add an additional 8tb external hard drive as a redundant back up and reformat my current external hard drive to NTFS. Also will be looking into a UPS for my system.
That should work out well. On the UPS: you want one that has a USB output for monitoring. You connect that to the ReadyNAS, so it will cleanly shut down when the UPS battery drains. I happen to use Cyberpower myself, though many folks like APC.
Perhaps also switch to jbod (2 volumes) in the future when you need to recreate the volume anyway. You'd simply put some of the network shares on each volume (keeping reasonable free space on each). It looks the same from the PC, since it normally sees the shares, and not the full volume.
Calvin386
Apr 03, 2018Aspirant
Thank you for your suggestions. Like you said...my usage is not dependant on being up and running quickly. That's what led me to the RAID 0 set up.
So it looks like I have a plan now. I will add an additional 8tb external hard drive as a redundant back up and reformat my current external hard drive to NTFS. Also will be looking into a UPS for my system. Thanks again
StephenB
Apr 04, 2018Guru - Experienced User
Calvin386 wrote:
So it looks like I have a plan now. I will add an additional 8tb external hard drive as a redundant back up and reformat my current external hard drive to NTFS. Also will be looking into a UPS for my system.
That should work out well. On the UPS: you want one that has a USB output for monitoring. You connect that to the ReadyNAS, so it will cleanly shut down when the UPS battery drains. I happen to use Cyberpower myself, though many folks like APC.
Perhaps also switch to jbod (2 volumes) in the future when you need to recreate the volume anyway. You'd simply put some of the network shares on each volume (keeping reasonable free space on each). It looks the same from the PC, since it normally sees the shares, and not the full volume.
- Calvin386Apr 04, 2018Aspirant
Will do...Thanks for your help.
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