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Storage Help (NAS+Media Streaming+RAID+Automatic Backup)
Hi everyone. I'm currently facing a dilemma trying to choose the best storage solution for me. I have just bought a Netgear R7000 (Nighthawk) 802.11ac router and would like to build my personal hom...
Using jbod will have no affect on streaming. ReadyNAS DLNA, plex, and the itunes server are built in (though the itunes server is not as useful as you might want).
The main impact of jbod is that you need to balance the storage yourself (since you'd have multiple volumes). This is easier if you use larger drives. That is, 4x3TB is easier to keep in balance than 6x2TB.
All these drives will saturate gigabit ethernet for large transfers, so I wouldn't worry about the I/O. That story is more complicated than capacity anyway (it depends on the number of platters, caching, load etc). If you want to maximize I/O for small/random transfers, I suggest you add in a 1 TB SSD and place the small files / database on there (note there is no 1 TB SSD currently on the HCL, hopefully they will add in more SSDs soon).
You can browse the disk compatibility list yourself here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20641
The main impact of jbod is that you need to balance the storage yourself (since you'd have multiple volumes). This is easier if you use larger drives. That is, 4x3TB is easier to keep in balance than 6x2TB.
All these drives will saturate gigabit ethernet for large transfers, so I wouldn't worry about the I/O. That story is more complicated than capacity anyway (it depends on the number of platters, caching, load etc). If you want to maximize I/O for small/random transfers, I suggest you add in a 1 TB SSD and place the small files / database on there (note there is no 1 TB SSD currently on the HCL, hopefully they will add in more SSDs soon).
You can browse the disk compatibility list yourself here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20641
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