Hi Paul Just to clarify, if you’ve got 2x3TB drives making a 6TB RAID, that’s a striped RAID, so twice the chance of disk failure, lose half the RAID (1 disk) and you lose all the RAID. Just make sure your NAS drives are regularly backing up the data from one to the other and that’ll be fine.
Regards Sam <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 9 Dec 2014, at 18:41, Paul R Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Be careful that is the model you want - the '+' on the end of the model means > (I think) that it is Ethernet connected. This might be what you need. > > I too am a Sinology fan with 2, 2 Bay NAS in my office, each with two 3TB HDs > for a total of 6TB in each NAS, configured as a RAID so they back each other > up. > > Paul Owen > > Sent from my iPad > > On 9 Dec 2014, at 18:28, Ray Packham <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> >>> On 9 Dec 2014, at 18:28, Ray Packham <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> HI all >>> Ive been looking at this…. >>> >>> >>> Synology DS414 DiskStation 4 Bay Desktop NAS >>> by Synology >>> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=bl_sr_computers?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Synology&index=computers&search-type=ss> >>> <> 36 customer reviews >>> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Synology-DS414-DiskStation-Bay-Desktop/dp/B00FWUQY5I%3Fpsc%3D1%26SubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduc08-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00FWUQY5I#customerReviews> >>> | 8 answered questions >>> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Synology-DS414-DiskStation-Bay-Desktop/dp/B00FWUQY5I%3Fpsc%3D1%26SubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduc08-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00FWUQY5I#Ask> >>> Price: £359.46 FREE UK delivery >>> >>> Based on what you said Sam I think this is my purchase, it will give me >>> enough storage to be future proof …. >>> >>> >>> Regards Ray >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 9 Dec 2014, at 14:10, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Got to be Synology, they have the best OS and selection of Apps. I’ve got >>>> mine hooked up to my CCTV camera to store recorded footage and it’s a >>>> file/time machine server too. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Sam >>>> >>>> <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> >>>> <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> >>>> <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> >>>> MacAmbulance Ltd. >>>> Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development >>>> >>>> Sam Mullen ACMT >>>> +44 (0)7747778022 >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> >>>> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration >>>> number 8466597 >>>> This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain >>>> privileged or confidential information. 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