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Upgrading Disks and Reshaping Time
Hi My ReadyNAS has 2x1TB and 2x4TB drives in it. I just purchased 2 more 4TB drives to replace the 1TB drives as I need more capacity. I've swapped in a 4TB drive to replace the first 1TB...
juwi_uk wrote:
So what is your solution?
Only one I can see is to have 2 duplicate NAS's
That is what I do. My main NAS is a pro-6 with a 15 TB RAID-5 volume. I have two backup NAS - an RN102 and an RN202, both with 6 TB + 8 TB jbod (two volumes on each). I learned pre-nas that it was wise to have 3 copies of everything I care about.
I also use crashplan cloud backup for disaster recovery, but I am not so confident in any cloud backup to rely on it completely. At some point I might drop one of the backup NAS and rely on crashplan (or amazon cloud) for the second copy.
I think another option is to use 8 TB usb drives (though you'd need two of course). If a lot of the data is archival, you could use a Seagate SMR drive for that.
juwi_uk wrote:
And I do backup my critcial data, just not all 16TB.
If you have the ability/discipline to separate criticial and non-critical data, then that's a great way to reduce the impact.
I find its difficult to keep "critical" separate from "non-critical" myself. So I just back up everything.
So what is your solution?
Only one I can see is to have 2 duplicate NAS's
Any I do backup my critcial data, just not all 16TB. A lot of what I store are Virtual Machines which if I lost wouldnt be as bad as losing important docs or pictures which much easier to backup.
Point here I'm making is to backup everything so I could factory reset and restore is not practical here.
Shame you cant combine them via util once you have added bigger disks and you know the fress space is there to move all data off of that layer to the larger one.
juwi_uk wrote:
So what is your solution?
Only one I can see is to have 2 duplicate NAS's
That is what I do. My main NAS is a pro-6 with a 15 TB RAID-5 volume. I have two backup NAS - an RN102 and an RN202, both with 6 TB + 8 TB jbod (two volumes on each). I learned pre-nas that it was wise to have 3 copies of everything I care about.
I also use crashplan cloud backup for disaster recovery, but I am not so confident in any cloud backup to rely on it completely. At some point I might drop one of the backup NAS and rely on crashplan (or amazon cloud) for the second copy.
I think another option is to use 8 TB usb drives (though you'd need two of course). If a lot of the data is archival, you could use a Seagate SMR drive for that.
juwi_uk wrote:
And I do backup my critcial data, just not all 16TB.
If you have the ability/discipline to separate criticial and non-critical data, then that's a great way to reduce the impact.
I find its difficult to keep "critical" separate from "non-critical" myself. So I just back up everything.
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