05-02-2023, 09:00 PM
Loving the YT videos. Discovered your channel this evening after searching for a NAS solution.
My current setup (WD Mybook 12TB (6TB mirrored) is nearly full. It houses all my RAW files from the last 6 years.
As I understand it, I am leaning towards a Synology DS923+ and want to fill it as much as I can afford. Possibly Ironwolf 8TBs (not pro) equalling 32TB total.
My understanding is that I should use RAID5 to make one of the drives as a protection drive leaving me with 24TB of actual storage.
Is RAID5 a good approach for my work?
I'm not the most complicated use case, simply need safe storage for my work that I can access easily. Up until now, it has been the My Book Duo which I then back up onto 2 other external HDs for peace of mind. I would like a NAS as (if I am correct) it will offer me a redundancy if one drive failed.
I'm only just learning this NAS work and so there's a lot of info, if you can advise that would be amazing.
Thanks so much
Gareth
My current setup (WD Mybook 12TB (6TB mirrored) is nearly full. It houses all my RAW files from the last 6 years.
As I understand it, I am leaning towards a Synology DS923+ and want to fill it as much as I can afford. Possibly Ironwolf 8TBs (not pro) equalling 32TB total.
My understanding is that I should use RAID5 to make one of the drives as a protection drive leaving me with 24TB of actual storage.
Is RAID5 a good approach for my work?
I'm not the most complicated use case, simply need safe storage for my work that I can access easily. Up until now, it has been the My Book Duo which I then back up onto 2 other external HDs for peace of mind. I would like a NAS as (if I am correct) it will offer me a redundancy if one drive failed.
I'm only just learning this NAS work and so there's a lot of info, if you can advise that would be amazing.
Thanks so much
Gareth