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Separate data (volume c) and system volumes
I find it hard to understand why the system volume is not an internal device instead of being resident on the drives that are placed in the chassis. An SD card or USB or something else mounted inside...
Well the OS partition and data partitions are separate partitions on your disks. An OS Re-install will fix a number of problems and for those that aren't fixed by that support can help. If the OS partition gets full it's best to get support to remote in and have a look to make sure any problems caused by this are corrected.
Using something like a SD card or a USB drive would give a non-redundant OS partition. Adding the option to have an OS partition on a USB key would add greater complexity and then you have the issue that most likely not all USB keys will work, over time some will fail which will mean support will need to troubleshoot problems with it etc. Not to mention how to recover if you replace the USB key? How does it detect whether you have working volumes on the NAS or not? How does it handle a situation where one or more of the disks have problems. How does it detect whether you are using X-RAID2 or Flex-RAID? If using Flex-RAID how does it detect how many volumes you have? How does it recreate the users and create some sort of default config? Then there's fixing permissions that get messed up, re-installing add-ons etc., implications regarding NAS performance and probably many things I haven't thought of. Lots of testing and plenty of potential for problems and support cases.
Using something like a SD card or a USB drive would give a non-redundant OS partition. Adding the option to have an OS partition on a USB key would add greater complexity and then you have the issue that most likely not all USB keys will work, over time some will fail which will mean support will need to troubleshoot problems with it etc. Not to mention how to recover if you replace the USB key? How does it detect whether you have working volumes on the NAS or not? How does it handle a situation where one or more of the disks have problems. How does it detect whether you are using X-RAID2 or Flex-RAID? If using Flex-RAID how does it detect how many volumes you have? How does it recreate the users and create some sort of default config? Then there's fixing permissions that get messed up, re-installing add-ons etc., implications regarding NAS performance and probably many things I haven't thought of. Lots of testing and plenty of potential for problems and support cases.
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