Hi
I use a 5big2 for many years without issue. I advice to use an inverter if you set a raid. Indeed some times you may lose its redundancy on power failure (when it was writing some data) and then performance are degraded during resynchronization (several hours).
kawaiicoconut wrote:In case of total HW failure (Dead motherboard or something not disk related) what are the chances of mounting/rebuilding the RAID on a different system. is it the same across NAS manufacturers?
Yes you can easily rebuild a raid (if you have enough sata port, at least 4) on a linux or mac OS, about linux or you can use for example a virtual host on your windows machine. mdadm command to assemble the raid should be present on these OS.
kawaiicoconut wrote:What services besides SMB could it run without any performance penalty (currently thinking on Transmission+DLNA)
when there is no streaming, dlna server consumes tiny resources. Same behaviour with transmission but according with your settings (up/download max speed, max peer connections) performance may collapse (cpu, get lan access or read/write disk access)
When you use a raid, mdadm monitor is running and if it detects a disk failure, you have a warning from fw web interface, red/blue LED are blinking. If you set a mail service it sends also a message