Plans on backup server
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 6:40 pm
I'm planning to buy 4x 4TB disks to set up a Raid5 for Windows File History and shadow copies, is this device reliable enough for this task? (I've had it running 24/7 for almost a year for Transmission and no problems so far, no lost data, nothing and the power supply Im using is far from reliable) Setting all the computers on my house to use it as I've recently had a human error mishap that otherwise could have been avoided and lost the entirety of 2 years of my brother's career files. There are some key doubts I have
- 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?
- What services besides SMB could it run without any performance penalty (currently thinking on Transmission+DLNA)
- will SMART status update periodically or I have to refresh it from the control panel?