02-28-2020, 03:37 PM
Hi I currently have a pretty slow DS216J that has been a good little workhorse for me for several years but I am looking to upgrade.
Originally I was looking at the DS720+ but then I started thinking about the possible benefits of the 2 extra bays (and higher ram). I will admit I really like the interface synology uses and although I don't use many of the features, I have considered expanding my use when I get my network equipment setup
The way I use the DS216j Today is I run backup4all on my laptop/desktop and my backups are saved over my network to the drivers (currently setup as raid 1).
then 1x a month I take another HD out of my safe and connect that via a USB External drive reader to the usb port on the NAS and copy over that month's latest files.... that is my fire/Catastrophic copy.
So what I was wondering was with a 4 drive DS920+ system, can i hot swap the 3rd drive to the NAS 1x a month to do those copies (and have it be on a separate storage pool? So Drive 1 and 2 would be Raid 1 on 1 storage pool and then drive 3 would be its own separate (and temporary raid 0 pool? What about drive 4? Can that also be an independent storage pool ( so Drives 1+2 are Raid 1, Drive 3 is Raid 0 for backups and Drive 4 is another raid 0 drive for miscellaneous?
Lastly 1 last question regarding the M2 chipset (since i bought 1 for my new Desktop and it didn't work out the way I hoped)... Synology says its for increasing the cache. Is it really or is adding a M2 chip basically adding another very fast SSD Hard Drive (which is how my desktop wanted to treat it... and not increasing the MB's actual cache.
Thank you in advance.
Originally I was looking at the DS720+ but then I started thinking about the possible benefits of the 2 extra bays (and higher ram). I will admit I really like the interface synology uses and although I don't use many of the features, I have considered expanding my use when I get my network equipment setup
The way I use the DS216j Today is I run backup4all on my laptop/desktop and my backups are saved over my network to the drivers (currently setup as raid 1).
then 1x a month I take another HD out of my safe and connect that via a USB External drive reader to the usb port on the NAS and copy over that month's latest files.... that is my fire/Catastrophic copy.
So what I was wondering was with a 4 drive DS920+ system, can i hot swap the 3rd drive to the NAS 1x a month to do those copies (and have it be on a separate storage pool? So Drive 1 and 2 would be Raid 1 on 1 storage pool and then drive 3 would be its own separate (and temporary raid 0 pool? What about drive 4? Can that also be an independent storage pool ( so Drives 1+2 are Raid 1, Drive 3 is Raid 0 for backups and Drive 4 is another raid 0 drive for miscellaneous?
Lastly 1 last question regarding the M2 chipset (since i bought 1 for my new Desktop and it didn't work out the way I hoped)... Synology says its for increasing the cache. Is it really or is adding a M2 chip basically adding another very fast SSD Hard Drive (which is how my desktop wanted to treat it... and not increasing the MB's actual cache.
Thank you in advance.