So....I don't know much...but I know a thing or two. I'm trying to get a small business setup with new servers and with that, a NAS for network shares and backup duties. The plan, was to get one of Synology's 2-bay NAS devices and have one HDD act as the Network share drive and the other act as the backup target for the servers and it would also contain a backup of the Network shares stored on the other drive and the backup drive would be swapped out daily.
I contacted Synology, outlining my intented use to ensure there was support for this and this is the response I get
First, he doesn't explain to me WHY it wouldn't work and then his suggestion, assumptively, is to buy a NAS.... So I shoot an email back with one word, "Why?" His response:
Ok well, I am not wanting to run the disks in RAID or have them spanned....just independently of eachother and, while I appreciate mentioning of the SATA/USB connector spec, that doesn't mean what I want to do won't work or cause the system to crash. So, I ask if their products are not non-raid capable and his response:
Hmm.....maybe this is where my knowledge gap opens up but....isn't being able to remove a drive while a system is powered on the main highlight of hot-swap?? Additionally, unless there is some caching going on, what's the difference between a healthy drive being removed and a drive failing, they could both disappear from the NAS OS in the same manner. So at this point, I ask why the NAS would crash when utilizing the hot-swap feature...and his response:
Hmm.....Ok, there's a communication failure here, I thought to myself. I then clarify that I don't intend to have them setup in JBOD, I would have them configured completely independent and they would have zero data sharing, completely separate volumes. His response?
....Is it me....or is it not apparent that the explanations being given are not sufficient and he's basically telling me "Just cause" as an explanation? Can someone break it down 'Barney style' for me please cause this guy sucks a fat one.
I have a network with roughly 200 users and need about 1.4TB of space for server backups and they are not using folder redirection currently but I plan to turn it on so I wanted a backup drive capacity of 4TB. Anybody have any NAS recommendations that can meet these requirements? If it wasn't clear above, I would like a NAS with at least 2 drive bays, one for network shares/folder redirection and the other as the target for server backups/backup of network shares/folder redirection.
I contacted Synology, outlining my intented use to ensure there was support for this and this is the response I get
Thank you for your interest in Synology Products.
Unfortunately the scenario you plan on using one of our systems for will not work as you would like it to. I would highly recommend utilizing an external hard drive rather than hot-swapping a drive from the system. I would also advise that you utilize 4 hard drives so that each drive can have a mirror.
First, he doesn't explain to me WHY it wouldn't work and then his suggestion, assumptively, is to buy a NAS.... So I shoot an email back with one word, "Why?" His response:
If you were to use the system in the way you outlined the volume would crash every time you removed Disk 2 as what you outlined is JBOD. SATA connectors are also only rated for a total of 300 unseats/reseats unlike USB connectors which are rated for several thousand.
Ok well, I am not wanting to run the disks in RAID or have them spanned....just independently of eachother and, while I appreciate mentioning of the SATA/USB connector spec, that doesn't mean what I want to do won't work or cause the system to crash. So, I ask if their products are not non-raid capable and his response:
Our system do support non-RAID configurations, however we do not support removing healthy drives from our systems.
Hmm.....maybe this is where my knowledge gap opens up but....isn't being able to remove a drive while a system is powered on the main highlight of hot-swap?? Additionally, unless there is some caching going on, what's the difference between a healthy drive being removed and a drive failing, they could both disappear from the NAS OS in the same manner. So at this point, I ask why the NAS would crash when utilizing the hot-swap feature...and his response:
If the drives are set up in JBOD, and you are to remove one of the drives, then yes, the volume that is stored on the disk you remove will crash.
Hmm.....Ok, there's a communication failure here, I thought to myself. I then clarify that I don't intend to have them setup in JBOD, I would have them configured completely independent and they would have zero data sharing, completely separate volumes. His response?
I understand what you are attempting to do, however the type of configuration you would like to set up will not work properly with our systems due to the reasons already provided
....Is it me....or is it not apparent that the explanations being given are not sufficient and he's basically telling me "Just cause" as an explanation? Can someone break it down 'Barney style' for me please cause this guy sucks a fat one.
I have a network with roughly 200 users and need about 1.4TB of space for server backups and they are not using folder redirection currently but I plan to turn it on so I wanted a backup drive capacity of 4TB. Anybody have any NAS recommendations that can meet these requirements? If it wasn't clear above, I would like a NAS with at least 2 drive bays, one for network shares/folder redirection and the other as the target for server backups/backup of network shares/folder redirection.