Netgear Duo storage capacity

mdgm wrote:
It is automatically by default configured so that if either disk fails your data remains intact. You do still need to backup your important data though e.g. to a USB disk, another NAS or some place else. So you want it configured differently? Do you have a v1 or a v2?]

Hi. It looks like I have a V1 according to that link (I was wondering as I bought it off Ebay and the seller wasn't sure which it was).

I just assumed (it appears wrongly) that the backup feature was user selectable so that you told the drives which data to back up from where or you could ask a PC to backup data to the nas for safekeeping.

I did not realise the drives mirrored themselves so you only have half the storage space but the safety net if one fails.

I have never had a NAS drive setup before and this is why I got a 2TB one thinking that it would give me that much space, or I could configure the drives to say 1/5tb storage 1/2tb to backup specific data.

A lot of my vital data I do have stored elsewhere (photos etc) and most stuff on the NAS while not stuff I want to loose, would not be classed as the end of the world if I did. So in fairness if there was a way of changing the redundancy settings only to back up a specific folder or set of folders rather than mirroring the complete drives that would be better to me.

If this is possible can someone tell me how.

Thank you both for your help.

Max