02-28-2020, 03:37 PM
Hello, I finally pulled the trigger and purchased QNAP-TVS-872N to run home plex/personal storage NAS. I have a ton of media I'll be loading on it right away so I have 6x 16TB HDDs loaded and ready to roll.
I just don't know if I should be using a static volume with no pools or thick/thin provision model with pools.
From what I have been able to gather snapshotting and volume expansion are the primary reasons to use thick/thin volume types
I don't really foresee myself adding to this main volume and would likely only use the remaining bays on a separate set of drives for my surveillance system.
So for a typical home user is snapshotting worth the storage allocation required (suggested) by QNAP when creating the volume? As far as I can tell it doesn't provide any disaster recovery, but only "oopsie" recovery from accidental delete.
Is there any other main benefits I'm missing from snapshot or other processes run with thick/thin volumes?
Am I losing out on a bunch of valuable tech by choosing to simple volume raid 5 my drives?
I just don't know if I should be using a static volume with no pools or thick/thin provision model with pools.
From what I have been able to gather snapshotting and volume expansion are the primary reasons to use thick/thin volume types
I don't really foresee myself adding to this main volume and would likely only use the remaining bays on a separate set of drives for my surveillance system.
So for a typical home user is snapshotting worth the storage allocation required (suggested) by QNAP when creating the volume? As far as I can tell it doesn't provide any disaster recovery, but only "oopsie" recovery from accidental delete.
Is there any other main benefits I'm missing from snapshot or other processes run with thick/thin volumes?
Am I losing out on a bunch of valuable tech by choosing to simple volume raid 5 my drives?