I chose it mostly because it has three drive bays, and is priced considerably less than the four bay boxes. I had good experiences rebuilding RAID 5 arrays back in the day, and usually found that bad data got replicated over good in mirrored arrays - maybe this box is marketed at retired IT guys like me . . .
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:16 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I think this is the right strategy, especially with multiple PCs. I use > Synology but I hear QNAP is good too. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of OK > > Don via Mercedes > > > > So I ended up buying a QNAP NAS box - TS-328 - and filling it with three > 4TB > > WD Red disks. That gets me 7.2TB with RAID 5. I then got a WD Mybook 8TB > > USB external drive to backup the NAS (done with one push of a button > > whenever you want). This should hold me for awhile. > > The three 4TB disks were less than two 8TB disks, and I really like RAID > 5 so - > > that's what I did. > > When I copied my photos directory to the NAS, it counted 465,000 files at > > 564GB. All total, I've put 1.27TB on the NAS from the two PCs. > > Here's hoping that the old PC keeps on ticking - but at least the data > will be > > safe (knocking on wood). > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
