nheather
Outstanding Member
I have a Synology 216, with just one 4TB - plenty for what we need.
But recently I have had a couple of mechanical hard drives fail (not in the NAS but various other computers) and that has left me a little nervous.
The disks I lost weren’t that important and I did not lose any data but made me think that if I lost the one disk in the NAS it would be a little worse.
So thinking how to protect that disk. My first thought is, that I have a spare bay so put another 4TB drive in it. Fine with the price and as I said, 4TB is plenty for my needs. What would be the best way to approach this, two disks in a RAID 1 mirror, or two independent storage pools with a backup copying the files from the main storage pool to the backup pool.
Cheers,
Nigel
But recently I have had a couple of mechanical hard drives fail (not in the NAS but various other computers) and that has left me a little nervous.
The disks I lost weren’t that important and I did not lose any data but made me think that if I lost the one disk in the NAS it would be a little worse.
So thinking how to protect that disk. My first thought is, that I have a spare bay so put another 4TB drive in it. Fine with the price and as I said, 4TB is plenty for my needs. What would be the best way to approach this, two disks in a RAID 1 mirror, or two independent storage pools with a backup copying the files from the main storage pool to the backup pool.
Cheers,
Nigel