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ashman

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Well I decided to consolidate two of my NAS's into one unit, I know its never good to put all your 'eggs in one basket' but I was outgrowing each unit which already had 3TB drives in them. I opted for the Synology DS2413+, I pulled the drives out of my other two NAS's which gave me ten and bought three more, two for what I need and one extra in case of a failure. Sorry I don't have pics, I'll try to post some. I carved it into one giant volume which is 29.85TB which ought to last me awhile, lol although I have 16.5TB to copy to it when its finished initializing the volume, whenever that is, so I guess I'll only have another 13TB to fill up, lol. So far I am impressed with the unit, although its early days. I'll let you guys know what the performance is like.
 
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Everything going on the NAS is duplicated elsewhere, I'll have to increase by backup storage at some point but for now it's ok.
 
I would have gone with at least SHR-2 (2 disk fault tolerance) or RAID-6 with that many drives...
 
I considered that but I have a spare on hand and what are the odds of two drives failing either simultaneously or within minutes of each other. If I didn't have my data duplicated I would of gone with it for sure.
 
As long as he has backups, he can run it in R0 for all I care.

R5 with that many disks in my mind is pretty much R0 with a small chance you won't hit a URE.

Looks like a big NAS, and I hope it works great for you. How are the speeds?
 
Dont know yet, still initializing the array, at this rate its completing 10% every four hours, gonna be awhile. I'll post back once its up.
 
However long it takes to initialize the array is how long it will take to rebuild it if something goes awry. Backup is neat and all, but when a drive fails and you're sitting there watching it restore for a few days hoping that second drive doesn't fail because even though you can restore from a backup in no way means you want to.
 
ashman said:
I considered that but I have a spare on hand and what are the odds of two drives failing either simultaneously or within several days of each other. If I didn't have my data duplicated I would of gone with it for sure.
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OP, I would strongly suggest you reconsider and at a minimum change to a RAID6 or SHR-2 configuration

personally, I'd go for RAID10 and just add some more drives down the line when you need them or a good sale comes along
 
Lets not forget I am using WD Red drives, and while they are not the holy grail of hard drives, in fact many people say they are simply Green drives rebranded with TLER thrown in, so far my experience with them has been very positive. I am reconsidering going with SHR2 just a pain to have to start all over, but I may go with it. Thanks.
 
I would checksum the original and the copies, to be sure some files were not randomly altered during copying.
 
Ok you guys convinced me, at least this way I have to lose a total of three drives to lose my data, however the rebuild time for even one failed drive is still going to be considerable, no way around that, at least this way though I am better protected.

Thanks everyone for your input.

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