12-22-2022, 08:51 PM
(12-22-2022, 02:27 PM)ed Wrote: Yes, the most popular choice is RAID5/SHR1. Those would need two drive redundancy go for RAID6/SHR2. Either way is fine.
People that are afraid of bitrot can create shared folder with the bitrot check activated. BTRFS file system allows this.
But you can still set up a backup plan in case of ire/flood/theft.
NAS allows simpler/automated ways of this doing this.
I hope this helps.
It does help a bit, although I feel like I'm walking through a mine field as I'm not familiar with Synology's DSM GUI and I'm taking baby steps as I learn so it's frustrating. In playing with the setup initially, I only initialized two of the four (SHR1) and that took forever. Copying my Plex movie library over took even longer over my ethernet network (is there a better way?). Now bringing the other two drives into that storage pool looks like it's going to be another forever to wait.
I'm hoping that the Exos drives will last me awhile, but it's certainly possible that one or more of the four won't. Since my Mac Pro setup had four drives, I had drive 1 backed up by 2 and 3 backed up by 4 using Carbon Copy. That way I could always say that I was backed up.
By using SHR1, it appears that I will have a pool that's 54 TB, but no real backup solution. If that is the case, wouldn't it make more sense to use SHR2 with a total of 36 TB of storage? At least that way if a drive fails, I don't have to scramble to find an additional 54 TB to backup with, correct?