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Which RAID should I select for BEST backup?
Hello all, I just got my ReadyNAS 316, installed two 6 TB WD Red drives, and (with the help of the awesome support techs) got everything up and running. Now I need to figure out which RAID level/ty...
I back up shares (to backup NAS, not external USB drives, but the idea is the same). I've had a NAS for some years, and currently have ~20 shares (a couple less). The main issue with backup is that you can't let a share get bigger than the backup drive. I've had to reorganize my backups occasionally but in general it hasn't been much of a problem. Organization on the NAS takes a little thought, but with volumes of the size you are planning you will need some folder structure anyway.
When you back up the full volume, of course you need a destination drive that can hold the full volume. Once you overflow your initlal 6 TB volume size, that won't work (since there are no 12 TB USB drives). So you'll end up share-by-share anyway.
Sorry for the newbie questions here.
Right now, the two drives are inserted and according to my admin page I have Raid 1 and X-RAID is green which means that I am using X-RAID with single redundancy, correct? I am assuming it is a single volume (called 'data') as I just did the generic setup. When you say "create single share on the volume" (and please don't smack your forehead when I ask this), what do you mean?
readynas default the volume/array name to "data" and this is misleading because what stored in hard drives are data anyway.
should have provision to rename it to say "array1" or "volume 1" etc instead of having to destroy the "data" and then set up new array.
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