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Hi Everyone,
Currently speccing out my first NAS & wanted to run it by some experts before buying everything. It's pretty vanilla: I don't want this to be a project... just something quick and reliable. It's for my graphic design studio. I want a shared file drive plus archive for files that are currently on 5 different PC's (3 Win10, 2 macOS).
Synology DS918+ $550
2x 6TB (raid 1) WD Red Pro archive $213 each (the Pro is cheaper than a regular Red for some reason)
2x 1TB (raid 1) WD black NVMe SSD - active jobs/working folders $220 ea
Automatic cloud backups of everything using Backblaze
Sync the SSDs with Dropbox for remote access (or w/o Dropbox if possible with built-in DSM software... I'm still researching this).
Questions:
I've read mixed reviews of SSD read/write cache performance, which is why I thought I'd get 1TB SSDs and use them for active file storage. Good idea or bad idea? Smaller SSDs are cheaper obviously, but I don't mind moving up to 1TB if that nets me consistently faster read/write speed over a caching setup.
Should I downgrade to a NAS that supports SATA SSDs instead of NVMe drives? I'd like to get a long lifespan out of this by using newer/faster tech, but if the speed difference won't be noticable I'd rather save the cash.
Can I use the NAS to backup other computers on the network, then have the NAS back up everything via Backblaze? Or do I need to back up each computer individually? I want to set this up properly out of the gate to quickly restore data if something goes down.
Appreciate any insight you can share! Hopefully I'm on the right track...
Currently speccing out my first NAS & wanted to run it by some experts before buying everything. It's pretty vanilla: I don't want this to be a project... just something quick and reliable. It's for my graphic design studio. I want a shared file drive plus archive for files that are currently on 5 different PC's (3 Win10, 2 macOS).
Synology DS918+ $550
2x 6TB (raid 1) WD Red Pro archive $213 each (the Pro is cheaper than a regular Red for some reason)
2x 1TB (raid 1) WD black NVMe SSD - active jobs/working folders $220 ea
Automatic cloud backups of everything using Backblaze
Sync the SSDs with Dropbox for remote access (or w/o Dropbox if possible with built-in DSM software... I'm still researching this).
Questions:
I've read mixed reviews of SSD read/write cache performance, which is why I thought I'd get 1TB SSDs and use them for active file storage. Good idea or bad idea? Smaller SSDs are cheaper obviously, but I don't mind moving up to 1TB if that nets me consistently faster read/write speed over a caching setup.
Should I downgrade to a NAS that supports SATA SSDs instead of NVMe drives? I'd like to get a long lifespan out of this by using newer/faster tech, but if the speed difference won't be noticable I'd rather save the cash.
Can I use the NAS to backup other computers on the network, then have the NAS back up everything via Backblaze? Or do I need to back up each computer individually? I want to set this up properly out of the gate to quickly restore data if something goes down.
Appreciate any insight you can share! Hopefully I'm on the right track...
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