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Anyone here use NAS (Network Accessible Storage) devices?
kahlid74:
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--- Quote from: kahlid74 on April 08, 2013, 10:34:39 am ---For you, if you're looking for simplicity, you can't go wrong with Synology. QNap is a little pricier but they work very well too. Lots of features.
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I ended up ordering the DS213; Synology sounds ideal for my purpose.
--- Quote ---Be careful with size of disks right, a 2 disk mirror at 3/4TB could take days to build on one of these systems. Slower processors and fixed memory with resource containers preventing faster array builds/rebuilds. If you go 3/4TB make sure you backup your data.
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Why does it take so long? Or rather, what is taking place that takes so long?
I plan to buy a pair of fresh 4 TB drives and set them up in RAID 1, so there won't be any initial data to mirror. Then I'm just going to copy files bit by bit until I eventually get all my necessary data onto the drives.
Insofar as data backup, I have an external 1 TB drive (USB 3.0) which I was thinking of hooking up just to backup more critical data like personal project files. Stuff that I really don't want to lose, as I realize RAID 1 won't protect against stuff like data corruption or accidentally deletion. I'm hoping the backup features of the DS213 will allow for that option and that doing weekly backups will be enough.
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Think of it no different than a home router. Home routers come with fixed CPU's and memory. When you're bittorrented to 1000 seeds/peers your router will run out of memory to contain the FIB/Adjacency tables and begin dropping them. As it becomes over-worked it begins slowing down because it's no longer able to hold the table of contents of every session open.
The same is true for home/SMB based NAS devices. They come with a limited amount of CPU/Memory and "Resource Restrictions/Shares". So the idea is that the device must hold onto a portion of it's resources in case it needs to serve data. So the remaining portion of resources can be claimed by the array building service. Most Home/SMB NAS's want to Zero your array out before you start using it. Since they have limited resources and cheaper components (to contain price) they don't allow you to write to an array while building/re-building.
As the technology gets better, they work in features like writing to it while building/rebuilding an array or using all the resources available unless a higher priority request comes in. I can't remember off the top of my head if that Synology lets you do that but it was more of a "be aware of this" than a huge concern.
Here's what I'll say about your data, if it's important, back it up ( disk is fine). If it's Critical, back it up, Archive it regularly and store it somewhere else.
edekoning:
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on April 09, 2013, 08:49:25 am ---Here's what I'll say about your data, if it's important, back it up ( disk is fine). If it's Critical, back it up, Archive it regularly and store it somewhere else.
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Indeed, RAID / Backups / Archiving are all different things, so don't confuse them.
--- Quote from: shponglefan on April 08, 2013, 11:59:54 am ---Insofar as data backup, I have an external 1 TB drive (USB 3.0) which I was thinking of hooking up just to backup more critical data like personal project files. Stuff that I really don't want to lose, as I realize RAID 1 won't protect against stuff like data corruption or accidently deletion. I'm hoping the backup features of the DS213 will allow for that option and that doing weekly backups will be enough.
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Yes DS will allow you to backup to an external USB drive. You can just pick what folders you want to backup, and create a schedule for that job.
struisje:
I converted an old Fujitsu Scaleo Home Server (which came standard with Windows Home Server) to an UnRaid box
Now serving 8 TB of data.
shponglefan:
To update, I got the DS213 and set it up about a week ago. Setup was a breeze. Took less than an hour from start of unboxing to copying my first files over. I particularly liked how easy it was to just download/install the latest OS for this thing. Far less time spent than when I previously set up my Ubuntu server.
Only issue I've run into so far is apparently a bug in which Windows service stops and restarts. Apparently this bug is in the latest OS and is known and expected to be fixed in the next release. Workaround is to just disable HD hibernation, so no worries there.
Other than that, I've been very impressed.
lilshawn:
now i got the bug. :lol
picked up a intel atom itx mobo with 2gb ram for next to nothing. between it's 2 SATA ports and the USB flash boot (with an 8gb flash chip i already have for the OS) i should be able to pull out my 2 main share drives from my desktop and plop them on there.
so... any one know if one these nas software solutions able to access NTFS drives directly or am i going to have to reformet and transfer all 2tb of data?
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