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DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers

For those who have made suggestions with costs going into the thousands of dollars, this is a home network with significant budget limits. Saving up for the Synology DS1522+ took 6 months

Yes, that is the plan. The question was about using RAID 0 on the backup. Based on how the old NAS will be used, it sounds practical to me.

A thought came to mind using my old NAS as a backup of my main. It will be powered up every month or two for the backup process. The new NAS will use SHR and eventually SHR2. Since the old NAS will be on for no more than a day. Would RAID 0 be practical, or a bad choice? It would lower the...

What I have is an old Synology NAS (DS415) with 4 6TB HDD in RAID 10. I use it for backups of home systems and my Plex library. I am getting a new one, DS-1522+, in a few weeks. So I could use the old one as the backup. Would powering it on once a month to perform a backup be a good plan? Or...

Since NVMe, we have gone completely SSD for our PCs and laptops. The only place we use HDDs is in our NAS.

It is well documented that RAID is not a form of backup. But with large arrays, what is a valid backup? If you have a 50TB array, what is there to back up to except...a RAID array? Do cloud backup options use some other form of redundant data storage?

I began playing shortly after the Gates of AQ opened. I'd estimate that was around 02/2006. I don't play in a steady pattern. I spend long hours playing when patches come out to continue the story on multiple characters. Then I usually have content fatigue and play other stuff. Last night, I...

World of Warcraft: 10,564 Hrs.

More odd behavior. I started a copy of a folder. It was a few MB/s. I did it again, same results. Tried again about 30 min. later, 74.1MB/s. Never unplugged it or restarted the NAS. Spontaneous result? This is a NAS from work 5 years ago. They upgraded to a QNAP with 8 bays. And as for...

Enclosure: SABRENT USB 3.1 Aluminum Enclosure for M.2 NVMe SSD in Silver (EC-NVME) SSD: SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen 4 Gaming M.2 Internal Solid State Drive Memory Card NAS: DS415+ (CPU: INTEL Atom C2538, Speed: 2.4GHz, Cores: 4, Memory: 2GB) OS: OS included with NAS HDD on...

I am upgrading my NAS. I am using the USB 3.0 port on the front of the NAS. I copied all the data off onto some spare HDDs and a 4TB SSD. Copying speeds off the NAS to the HDD and SSD were good. Copying speed of the data back onto the NAS was good for the HDD. However, copying back onto the...

That system was only temporary. On the Frankenstein system, I installed barebone CentOS with ssh, webmin, and BTRFS. This was completely software RAID. All temporary just to recover the data. Once the volume was accessible, I copied all the data off and built a new system with 4x 4TB HDD in...

System: MoBo with PCI-X slot 16 1TB HDD in RAID 10 with ext4 partition 1 PCI-X 16-port RAID controller Scenario: MoBo fails. Question: Would the data be recoverable if I could not get another MoBo with a PCI-X? Instead, I use the SATA ports on a new MoBo, a PCI and a PCIe SATA controller card...

What 2 or 3 games would you combine to make the ultimate game? For me: Freelancer, Halo, Planet Crafter