NAS Concerns

[Jeff Gaines]

Adrian Caspersz's post on RAID 10 made me start checking a few things.

I decided to break my 2 x QNAP NAS down to work as 4 x individual disks, I
don't know if that is JBOD, they don't work together in any way?

I did that with TS431 and made sure all was well and backed my stuff up to
it.

I then did the same with the TS451 but got some odd drive sizes so I
turned it off and pulled the drives to discover I had 2 x 2TB SSD and w x
3 TB spinners. I have no idea why I set it up like that but it may have
been at a time when there was a considerable price difference. Anyway I
think setting it up as RAID 10 probably hid that from me as I thought
there were 4 x 2 TB SSD in there!

I now see that the first drive in each of the NAS's is marked as the
system drive. If that is the one that fails do I lose the data on the
other three drives? If so will it come back when the system drive is
replaced?

The more I think about it the less happy I am using a NAS for my backup,
although they are good for streaming stuff locally.

I also discovered that I still had apps on the old (Z170K) box that I
needed to un-install while online and I had completely forgotten to copy
my "well mannered" games directory over so a timely comment by Adrian,
thank you :-)

If I use a spare PC as a backup server what's best the Asus Z170K a single
Xeon HP Z320 or dual Xeon 64 GB RAM Z620 heavy metal?

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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
It may be that your sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.