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ReadyNAS 314 - a year of hell and now lost 10years of data!
I bought a ReadyNAS 314 when they were new in the market back in April 2013. I bought it partly because I wanted to safeguard my increasing data storage with redundancy in case of disk failure, and al...
Disk Do Fail & the root cause is based on multiple factors , unfortunate this situation has been there for ages now . May be the failure rates would have decreased , but the use of large capacity HDD have increased many times .
Imagining If Disk never fail ...
1) Raid concept would not have been out of date
2) Data recovery Industry would not be growing every year
If Entry NAS was the solution for Data to be safe for ever , then Expensive BIG IT Vendors costing more than will not be able to perform in the current market .
Data should be in always two locations if you are using SMB NAS devices . It can be scattered , but present somewhere .
If we say that i have got a NAS and its Raid protected , What if two disks fail and no one noticed it ? NAS with Raid 5 or 1 can support only One disk Failure Support .There are multiple HDD options from manufactures Desktop / NAS Series / Enterprise Series . Based on your application & usage we need to choose the disks . Putting a cost effective disk out of the league , and store critical data will increase the risk . Its not that it will fail , Question is "If its fails what next ?"
Even BIG IT Vendors may not give data guarantee after spending more than 10K USD . I remember a cloud service provider , where many customer data was stored crashed few years back .
Failures are everywhere & point i would note is how critical is the data and do i have my data in two locations .
Imagining If Disk never fail ...
1) Raid concept would not have been out of date
2) Data recovery Industry would not be growing every year
If Entry NAS was the solution for Data to be safe for ever , then Expensive BIG IT Vendors costing more than will not be able to perform in the current market .
Data should be in always two locations if you are using SMB NAS devices . It can be scattered , but present somewhere .
If we say that i have got a NAS and its Raid protected , What if two disks fail and no one noticed it ? NAS with Raid 5 or 1 can support only One disk Failure Support .There are multiple HDD options from manufactures Desktop / NAS Series / Enterprise Series . Based on your application & usage we need to choose the disks . Putting a cost effective disk out of the league , and store critical data will increase the risk . Its not that it will fail , Question is "If its fails what next ?"
Even BIG IT Vendors may not give data guarantee after spending more than 10K USD . I remember a cloud service provider , where many customer data was stored crashed few years back .
Failures are everywhere & point i would note is how critical is the data and do i have my data in two locations .
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