Raid-10 and raid-0

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maartenhoek wrote:

Hi,

 

I have a RN204 with 4 4TB disks. As an amateur photographer I would like to have my working files on one disk and back up on a second disk (raid 0). 

The other two disk I would like to use as a time capsule for the various macbooks of 500gb each in the house + I would like to share music and some photo files here for all users.

 

How to achieve this on my NAS?

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Thx for clarifying.  You want some RAID-0 volumes and one RAID-1 volume (not RAID-10).

What you need to do is switch to flexraid.  For instance, do a factory reset with 2x4TB in place, which will give you a RAID-1 volume.  Switch to flexraid, and then hot-insert the remaining two disks.  Select each disk, and create a new volume on it.  That will give you three volumes - one for the 2-drive RAID-1 array, and one for each of the jbod disks.

I'd suggest having a second backup to a USB drive (or cloud storage), since a NAS failure could result in data loss/corruption on all disks.  Also, look into the snapshot feature.  That might also be useful to you (perhaps on the backup volume).

Note that just using XRAID would give you the same total space (12 TB) in one RAID-5 volume.  You could still back up your working data to another share (though with a single volume, a second backup is even more important).