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RN316 4 HDD (4TB each) in RAID 10 with 2 SSD in RAID 1 for Tiering? Good Idea
RN316 4 HDD (4TB each) in RAID 10 with 2 SSD in RAID 1 for Tiering?
Good Idea ? This Is after my 3 byear old 316 had to be RMA-ed.
Usage will be daily (I plan to use cron to start it when my kid ...
Hopchen wrote:
I take my NAS as a storage device only. It provides data to my devices and is an integral part of backing up and data safe-keeping. But that is it.
That's also been my approach for a couple of years now. I've deployed a Windows desktop PC as an application server, and that is where I run plex and other applications. I agree it's more scalable.
This is an interesting topic in its core. What is a NAS now-a-days? I think more and more people see it as a server that will handle storage, Plex, apps, ReadyCLOUD, etc. The more tasks you add to the NAS the more it requires of the hardware inside.
The RN316 is getting older now and the hardware might struggle with some of the more demanding tasks, such as Plex transcoding. As StephenB said, upgrading the NAS is very expensive because in order to get "proper" CPU and RAM capabilities, you will need a fairly high-end model and that is gonna cost you.
I take my NAS as a storage device only. It provides data to my devices and is an integral part of backing up and data safe-keeping. But that is it. The raw transfer speeds on many desktop NAS'es will easily saturate a gigabit connection and that is all I need - fast file transfers.
If I want a server that can do all the different tasks listed above (except of course ReadyCLOUD - but I would prefer a classic VPN solution) then I get a different device to do that. A well specced Intel NUC could be a good choice for a home server. The storage deposit could still be on the NAS and the server would simply pull data from it as needed. That is also a much more scalable solution I think because you won't get limited so much by the NAS aging. The RN316 would still provide excellent file transfer speeds.
Hopchen wrote:
I take my NAS as a storage device only. It provides data to my devices and is an integral part of backing up and data safe-keeping. But that is it.
That's also been my approach for a couple of years now. I've deployed a Windows desktop PC as an application server, and that is where I run plex and other applications. I agree it's more scalable.
Hopchen @ Stephen
I could not agree more with your statements. I wanted the 316 to serve just the files to an external media renderer (the Plex solution was sugested at one point in the discussion, but I am reealistic about the power of the processor, plus I hate having extra writes/reads from indexing - just read my folders, a la Kodi) So from the begining I bought Irfant and then Netgear just to serve the files. Went through Thecus, but abysmal forums and speed) Before I had a kid I used my computers/laptops as media renderers.
I did not have a NUC , but similar a Mac mini and I was using the PS3 (that I bought solely for the Blueray and Linux tinkering) to listen to music ( I ripped my over 3000 CD's 10 years ago as flac's - seemed a great idea at the time. The PS3 as a media rendered was a bonus.
The Mac Mini was overkill, and it did not have a proper remote ( I have the PS3 remarkably usefull bluetooth TV remote)
The wrench in the spoke is the fact that I got a kid now, so I am trying to minimize access to fileservers, And make it simple for her (apparently I am underevaluating her ingenuity because she managed to show me how Amazon Prime (only stream I have because of good educational cartoons, free of Barbie, Disney pink princesses and kidnappers (Beauty and the Beast).
I never exoected transcoding to happen at NAS leevel, I was using a loopback through my octacore workstation with UMS (formerly PS3 Media server).
I just want a capable media renderer to serve the files.
Now, going back to the Raid 10 setup. I did it and it works. I just now know thaat Netgear volume reconstruction is a russian roulette, especially since they put the BTRFS files. I have a strong hunch that is one of the culprits. I specifically built aa raid 6 on EXT with RAID 1 NVM cache (synology 1019+) just to stick to what apparently works.
I keep a lot of uninteresting resezarch files, no databases, lots of pictures (mix of work and hoby
My beef is with the losing of volumes every 3 years, while doing the X-raid upscaling or just purely swaping a dying and ejectd from the volume drive. Or having the business machines used at at 1/100th of their capacity die not only once, when consumer ones keep going for 9 years. On EXT 4.
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