Media NAS
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@coliver said:
Good to hear I just got a dud unit. Although I probably won't be purchasing another one due to the support.
Support is the biggest factor with business class products. If support isn't great, what are you paying for? Anyone can make a device that seems nice. It's supporting it that is hard and what we pay for.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I prefer diskless and then buy appropriate Western Digital drives. I've used Green and Red in mine, work great.
Someone else who understands how awesome WD Red drives are?
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@Mike-Ralston said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I prefer diskless and then buy appropriate Western Digital drives. I've used Green and Red in mine, work great.
Someone else who understands how awesome WD Red drives are?
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2014/05/understanding-the-western-digital-sata-drive-lineup-2014/
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@scottalanmiller That article doesn't mention Purple's, hmm...
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@scottalanmiller And extremely reliable from what I've heard. But, back on subject, after little hands on experience with NAS systems, I can say that the ReadyNas that I've only been using for a few hours is already up and working nicely.
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If I were going to set up a 2-disc RAID set for the media server, I'd go with RAID-0. No critical data there, so let's get performance. It's not like I don't have the DVD for most of the media as a backup. Or a copy on my iPod.
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@art_of_shred said:
If I were going to set up a 2-disc RAID set for the media server, I'd go with RAID-0. No critical data there, so let's get performance. It's not like I don't have the DVD for most of the media as a backup. Or a copy on my iPod.
In this scenario, RAID 0 will only add performance for writing, not reading. For watching the movies you get the same either way. Typically write performance is not a big deal for something like this as it is a rare thing and often constrained by the performance of the source media anyway. But having to recreate several terabytes of media, even if very possible, remains very annoying.
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@scottalanmiller In that case I would still do RAID-0 for the capacity. No need to waste half the space for redundancy.
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If you're doing it for the capacity then a separate RAID-0 volume for each disk would be the way to go.
If a disk fails all data on RAID-0 volumes using that disk is lost.
I would still recommend using a redundant volume. If the capacity on a single disk is an issue then with a 4-bay NAS you can get 3x the capacity of a 2 disk NAS, using RAID-5 with 4 disks compared with RAID-1 with 2 disks.
