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6.2.0 upgrade problems on RN104
Since upgrading my RN104 to 6.2.0 I've had similar problems to those listed by other users: - Unable to shutdown or reboot. Display shows appropriate message and power button LED flashes, but noth...
Thanks, I've run a balance but it hasn't made any difference. What next?
The drives are indeed quite full, and they are all backed up. I've been moving some data from drives 1,2 & 3 onto drive 4 but don't really see the need to leave a lot of empty wasted space on the drives as these are just TV recordings that I'm gradually watching and deleting or keeping as the mood takes me. I'm not constantly adding / updating / deleting a lot of small files. What's the recommended amount of free space to leave, and why?
As for using separate volumes, I've never seen the point in using RAID at home. I want to have the maximum amount of storage space available on the NAS and a simple way of backing it up, and I don't want to trust all my data to a single device even if it has redundancy.
Using separate volumes and backing them up to separate drives via a USB enclosure connected to my PC is the method that makes sense to me at the moment. I could perhaps switch to RAID 0 to give me one large volume without any redundancy, and use an identical RAID array in a NAS, DAS or PC to back it up. That would actually make my life easier as I wouldn't have to keep swapping drives when I do my backups.
The drives are indeed quite full, and they are all backed up. I've been moving some data from drives 1,2 & 3 onto drive 4 but don't really see the need to leave a lot of empty wasted space on the drives as these are just TV recordings that I'm gradually watching and deleting or keeping as the mood takes me. I'm not constantly adding / updating / deleting a lot of small files. What's the recommended amount of free space to leave, and why?
As for using separate volumes, I've never seen the point in using RAID at home. I want to have the maximum amount of storage space available on the NAS and a simple way of backing it up, and I don't want to trust all my data to a single device even if it has redundancy.
Using separate volumes and backing them up to separate drives via a USB enclosure connected to my PC is the method that makes sense to me at the moment. I could perhaps switch to RAID 0 to give me one large volume without any redundancy, and use an identical RAID array in a NAS, DAS or PC to back it up. That would actually make my life easier as I wouldn't have to keep swapping drives when I do my backups.
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