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ReadyNAS 212 Back Up Question
I am using my NAS (Raid 1, 2 - 4 TB drives) attached to a R7000 Netgear router as a hard drive for my Microsoft Surface Book 2. As you know, there is not much onboard memory(128 or 256 GB) on solid state lap tops. Before completely switching over from my desk top to my laptop, I need to get my back up going. I am aware that a RAID 1 is not a back up solution. My question is....When I attach my 4tb external hard drive(back up drive only), is it acceptable to make the connection to the NAS usb 3.0 port or should I use the usb 3.0 on my R7000 router? Also this is a home back up most important being pictures and videos. These take up quite a bit of storage. Right now I'm still around 1TB of data. Would it be better to just run the NAS as a RAID 0 (providing 8 TB of hard drive storage) with an 8 TB external hard drive as back up drive? This would almost certainly prevent the need of ever buying more capacity. Thanks very much for your adviceSolved