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Which drives to get for new ReadyNas?
So I need a new NAS. This is going to be expensive... TL:DR at bottom of post A bit of background info first. I have an NVX Business edition that I've had for a little over 2 years. I got it wit...
Read back through your initial post and found I did not respond to "desktop RAID". While I don't know exactly where you picked that phrase up, but, the ReadyNAS is a desktop RAID unit as opposed to a commercial rackmount RAID unit. I do know that WD has stated that they do not recommend the consumer grade drives, especially the "green" drives for use in a RAID application. Part of this is the electronics on the drive try to control when the drive spins down, whereas in the NAS application, the NAS tries to control that and you have a conflict.
Seagate's approach and I believe Hitachi's as well is different and uses the lower RPM of the drive to save energy.
Yes, I was referring to the backup task scheduler in Frontview.
If you are looking at a second NV+, you might then install 3TB drives in the NVX which would give you a volume twice as large as it would be with 1.5TB drives, and then both NV+ units could be used as a backup for separate shares with the 1.5TB drives. My two NVX units are configured currently with 2x3TB and 2x1TB drives for a net volume of 4.5TB (single redundancy) with the Pioneer being the backup target of the BE. The NV+ is a secondary backup of the critical (non-video) data. I had the unit and the drives are the ones removed during the upgrade of the NVX units.
You can also use large drives connected to a PC and copy files over to that drive via the network. This is a time consuming process and one I use to periodically backup my files before I went to the backup scheduler using rsync.
Seagate's approach and I believe Hitachi's as well is different and uses the lower RPM of the drive to save energy.
Yes, I was referring to the backup task scheduler in Frontview.
If you are looking at a second NV+, you might then install 3TB drives in the NVX which would give you a volume twice as large as it would be with 1.5TB drives, and then both NV+ units could be used as a backup for separate shares with the 1.5TB drives. My two NVX units are configured currently with 2x3TB and 2x1TB drives for a net volume of 4.5TB (single redundancy) with the Pioneer being the backup target of the BE. The NV+ is a secondary backup of the critical (non-video) data. I had the unit and the drives are the ones removed during the upgrade of the NVX units.
You can also use large drives connected to a PC and copy files over to that drive via the network. This is a time consuming process and one I use to periodically backup my files before I went to the backup scheduler using rsync.
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