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Using Ready NAS 104 as individual volumes for long term storage of multimedia files
Hi all, I have recently purchased a Ready nas 4 bay system, with 3x 4tb seagate harddrives. The plan is to use this as a long term storage solution for my partners photography business, which...
We are looking at approx 10-12tb of data as it stands, with a growth rate of approx 3tbs a year, depending upon how much work comes our way. This is weddings and dance concerts, so needs to be accessible in the long term. I am also advocating Cloud storage as well.
Given that the NAS system and tyhe 3 harddrives came to around a thousand dollars, I better be able to make it work, or I might be sleeping on the couch for a while! :)
Although, having said that, there is a large amount of data that we dont REALLY need to store. It's m,ainly weddings, and they might be better stored in a RAid system with a cloud backup. With 3, 4 tb harddrives, is it possible to have 8tbs of storage in a raid system? Cutting down what wer need to store would mean we would nearly elimintate the need to dismount and remount harddrives.
Oh, and I purchased the Seagate NAS drives. :)
tsimmo67 wrote:
With 3, 4 tb harddrives, is it possible to have 8tbs of storage in a raid system?
Yes. 3x4TB xraid will give you 8 TB of storage (reported as ~7.2 TiB by the NAS).
I agree that combining cloud and a local NAS is a good option. Though I hesitate to completely depend on Cloud, which is why I suggest continuing USB archival as well. Cost is relatively low for 3 TB a year, and I like belt+suspender approaches for backup. BTW, I've also had long-term reliability issues with USB disks (one reason I use NAS-to-NAS backup)..
Excellent, Thanks for the info!
I think we shall maintian the external hdd's in storage somewhere, back up necessary files to both cloud and the NAS and use the NAS and cloud to backup future files, with the option to grow to further backups if needed.
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