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Volumes? - Enquiries - 02-28-2020
I am setting up a TVS872XT NAS, and I am stuck- should I do a static volume or thick volume?
I am using it for my photography archive, currently at 42 TB, and is growing fast. I have 6 16tb EXOS drives installed, and will do a RAID 6 configuration.
Do I need snapshots? Or should I just make one static volume on the RAID? I know I will get better performance from the static volume, but do I sacrifice flexibility?
Thank you, Ive been trying to figure this out for hours.
Volumes? - ed - 02-16-2021
The static volume will be very limiting. The thick volume will consume too much storage space if you enable snapshots.I would go for a thin volume. This means that storage space will be automatically increased every time you add data. You can also enable a snapshot that will protect your data against things like ransomware attacks.I hope this helps.