Hi everyone
I am new to the NAS game, but am thinking of getting one (leaning towards 4bay Synology, say the DS415+) and was hoping for some advice on my situation:
1) Backup of important files (e.g. pictures, documents). Currently they are scattered over multiple disks, so I'd like to centralise into one location on the network (so I can access anywhere while connected locally), and to have automated backup solutions where the files are replicated over 2 disks (if one disk fails)
2) Serving my media files from one location (e.g. accessed by my HTPC, mobile devices). The media files are less important, so I don't need redundancy or backup.
Given this situation, what would be the best way to setup the NAS, and also what configuration of disks should I be buying?
For example, can / should I RAID1 on two disks for my personal files, and just have a third disk in the NAS dedicated to serving the media files (without any redundancy as I don't really need it for media files?)
n00b questions I know – advice would be much appreciated!
Why not just setup one disk using SHR ? then setup shares depending on what you need: i.e.
Pictures
Movies
TV shows
Ect
you lose a bit of hard drive space to redundancy but it means that if any one hard drive fails then just pop in another and away you go without any data loss.
Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR)
Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) is an automated RAID management system, designed to simplify storage management and meet the needs of new users who are unfamiliar with RAID types.
SHR can combine different sized hard drives to create a storage volume with optimized capacity and performance, wasting less hard drive space and providing a more flexible storage solution. When sufficient hard drives are included, SHR allows for 1- or 2-disk redundancy - meaning the SHR Volume can suffer up to one or two failed hard drives without experiencing data loss.