Hi there. I am looking for a solution in which I can backup customers data to a set location on my network. I have been looking at the "READYNAS NV+ v2 (DISKLESS) RND4000"
I need to backup data from Windows & Macintosh and need to setup raid so that if one of the drives were to fail I swap them over and pop a new drive in.
IS it possible with this unit to have
Drive 1 : Formatted in NTFS (RAID1) Drive 2 : Mirror of Drive 1 (RAID1) Drive 3: Mac OSX Extended Journaled file system(RAID1) Drive 4: Mirror from Drive 3 (RAID1)
All dries will need to be 3 TB SO I will need to buy four 3 TB Drives also
I hope this makes sense ? Would this be possible.
Sorry for any confusion I am new to the world of NAS 🙂
Re: New to the world of NAS and have a few questions
It is almost possible to do this using flex-raid. What you can't do is format the drives as NTFS or OSX - they all need to be formatted as ext4 (native linux format). They are accessed over the network via SMB or AFP.
You can also do something similar with 3 drives (using RAID-5 or XRAID2), creating shared folders for the Windows and Mac system. That would protect against any single drive failure, and give you a a drive slot for expansion. The corresponding disadvantage is that data recovery in the case of failure is somewhat harder with RAID-5 than it is with RAID-1.
Re: New to the world of NAS and have a few questions
StephenB wrote:
It is almost possible to do this using flex-raid. What you can't do is format the drives as NTFS or OSX - they all need to be formatted as ext4 (native linux format). They are accessed over the network via SMB or AFP.
You can also do something similar with 3 drives (using RAID-5 or XRAID2), creating shared folders for the Windows and Mac system. That would protect against any single drive failure, and give you a a drive slot for expansion. The corresponding disadvantage is that data recovery in the case of failure is somewhat harder with RAID-5 than it is with RAID-1.
Hi thank you for your reply. I see so when the drives get put into the NAS that automatically formats the Drives into the ext4 file system ? And I do not need to worry about Windows or Mac not reading that format ? That format is read by both OS's, and yes creating two separate folders, one for Mac one for Windows would be the best.
If I was to buy one drive to begin with can I add more in the future ?
Re: New to the world of NAS and have a few questions
DauntlessEagle wrote:
I see so when the drives get put into the NAS that automatically formats the Drives into the ext4 file system ?
Yes.
DauntlessEagle wrote:
And I do not need to worry about Windows or Mac not reading that format ?
The Windows PC and the Mac can't read the file format directly. What happens is that the NAS uses a network sharing protocol which allows both devices to read /write the files over a network.
DauntlessEagle wrote:
...creating two separate folders, one for Mac one for Windows would be the best.
You can set up the shared folders so that both the Mac and the Windows PC can read/write them. However, creating the folders lets you keep the data organized. In this case, the Synk program should use its own folder.
DauntlessEagle wrote:
If I was to buy one drive to begin with can I add more in the future ?
Yes. You do need to decide on initial install whether you are using FlexRaid or XRAID-2. Changing later requires re-installing, which wipes your data. If you are unsure, I would go with XRAID-2
