A Retro guy Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 I have looked into and am kinda intreseted in getting a NAS RAID thing so that i have like 50-64 TB or something like that. Problem is thou that i dont know for sure yet if its a good idea to put my collection in a NAS RAID. So is it fine or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadVoivod Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 As long as you manage to map your drives and point LB to the paths it should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Retro guy Posted April 17, 2021 Author Share Posted April 17, 2021 also. whats the best NAS RAID to get that can contain up to 50 or 64 TB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadVoivod Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 (edited) I have a Synology 2413+, that's a 12 bay NAS, and I think it's absolutely great, newest model is the 2419+, so mine is already a bit older. I also "only" have 4TB disks inside, and upgraded it from 2GB RAM to 4GB, but that's the max. So if I do stuff on it like archiving, what we guys do a lot, it's nowadays quite slow. But the 2419+ comes with 4GB and it's upgradable up to 32GB, so that's quite nice. Running in RAID 6. Although I don't host my ROMs on the NAS, but internally on PC plus USB HDD backup. Edited April 17, 2021 by DeadVoivod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Retro guy Posted April 17, 2021 Author Share Posted April 17, 2021 how colud i possibly use a nas raid so that i have a collection thats 50 or 64 TB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drphobus Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 I use a Qnap 4 bay nas, but only for roms. The main program and media are on my faster internal hard drives. also you need to consider the question of what type of raid. All drives will fail in the future and larger drives are more susceptible to this. a couple of points to think about are the maximum size of hard drive to put in (my qnap is 16tb per drive max max) do you need a NAS that can take different size drives , not all can. do you need a NAS or will a cheaper DAS system work (connected to pc via usb only) It is best to know what type of raid you think suits your need and check your NAS supports it. if i got this right it goes like this 4 x 10tb drives raid 0 will give the fastest and most space. but if one drive fails all data is lost. only use if you have a reliable backups raid 0 40tb and faster as writes to both drives simultaneously, but if one drive fails lose data from both drives raid 1 20tb two copies of all data so if a drive fails it can be rebuilt raid 10 20tb with the speed of raid 0 and restore abilitys of raid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Retro guy Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 how good do you think the orico 5 bay is. thats the NAS im most intrested in getting since it can store up to 50 TB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drphobus Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 i think you might be looking at a DAS and not a NAS the 5 bay ones that are around £100 have a 10tb per drive limit it works the same way as a powered external hard drive with a usb3 lead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Retro guy Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 whats the best and cheapest DAS that i can get that has drives pre pacaged and can hold up to 50 or 64 TB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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