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So I had a couple of threads here about my NAS, backup and my general setup. Many of you were generous enough to answer with how you did things so I could develop a best practice of my own.
For anyone interested and just for conversation's sakes, here is how it shook out.
- My NAS ended up being a RAID 5 with 4 active drives (can have up to 6).
I did just add a 5th drive to that array to add space. So YES you can safely add a drive to a RAID array on a QNAP device. However it does take like a day of time for it to be added.
- For Backup I ended up buying "Genie Backup Manager Pro". While it is not the most polished program it will backup to multiple destination drives AND if you turn off encryption and compression all it does is a raw file copy.
All in all the entire thing runs well. I even stream lossless UHD titles from the NAS, to Plex, to my Roku's and all through Wi-Fi of course. It takes about 100mb of bandwidth to do so and I think it puts a hurting on a Roku but it works and is stable.
For anyone interested and just for conversation's sakes, here is how it shook out.
- My NAS ended up being a RAID 5 with 4 active drives (can have up to 6).
I did just add a 5th drive to that array to add space. So YES you can safely add a drive to a RAID array on a QNAP device. However it does take like a day of time for it to be added.
- For Backup I ended up buying "Genie Backup Manager Pro". While it is not the most polished program it will backup to multiple destination drives AND if you turn off encryption and compression all it does is a raw file copy.
All in all the entire thing runs well. I even stream lossless UHD titles from the NAS, to Plex, to my Roku's and all through Wi-Fi of course. It takes about 100mb of bandwidth to do so and I think it puts a hurting on a Roku but it works and is stable.