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Can't access NAS - password fail - and not showing up on TV
Hi all, Firstly, thanks for any help you might be able to give me. Mods - please move this if it needs to be in a different forum, I looked, but I couldn't work out which it needed to be in, it d...
Thanks Stephen, a UPS is my next big purchase. If I had a UPS last year I wouldn't have lost all my data to a lightning strike. (I didn't have Crashplan then, either. The old site I had purported to allow you to upload as much as you want, however, they lied and I got disillusioned so I gave the remote backup idea away until I read about Crashplan on Whirlpool forum).
Having RAID-5 would require me to get another two disks now, wouldn't it? I was under the impression that you had to have at least 4 disks for RAID-5, and it didn't work on larger drives, but hey, I may have read the wrong info...
Before I go try to work out how in hell to change the RAID on the NAS - do you think I should do RAID-5? I chose RAID-1 because I was concerned if one drive died I wanted to be able to have a duplicate, but I see that's the same with RAID-5 - if one drive dies, you can replace it. What's the odds of more than one drive dying at the same time (without a catastrophe like lightning...
If I do RAID-5 - can I start with 4 drives and add the other two later? I might be able to afford two more drives soon...
I'm sorry to be vacillating, but I really appreciate your time and help.
Having RAID-5 would require me to get another two disks now, wouldn't it? I was under the impression that you had to have at least 4 disks for RAID-5, and it didn't work on larger drives, but hey, I may have read the wrong info...
Before I go try to work out how in hell to change the RAID on the NAS - do you think I should do RAID-5? I chose RAID-1 because I was concerned if one drive died I wanted to be able to have a duplicate, but I see that's the same with RAID-5 - if one drive dies, you can replace it. What's the odds of more than one drive dying at the same time (without a catastrophe like lightning...
If I do RAID-5 - can I start with 4 drives and add the other two later? I might be able to afford two more drives soon...
I'm sorry to be vacillating, but I really appreciate your time and help.
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