techno79
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I have a single drive Qnap NAS (TS112P) which I use to store media content. There's nothing hugely critical on there that if my hard drive failed, that I'd be devastated. However, there would be some degree of hassle with setting up a new drive so a couple of years ago, I purchased a 2nd single drive Qnap NAS (same model) and then setup a NAS to NAS replication job to backup the content on a weekly basis. The amount of hassle of losing a week's worth of data is almost zero. There are many reasons for this solution but them main ones are:
I think my single drive solution will soon reach a physical upper storage limit and I'll need to upgrade to a multi drive NAS. My questions are:
Thoughts?
- Single drive NAS drives are ultra power efficient and very quiet
- They are also relatively cheap
- Having a NAS backup to another NAS gives me some protection from hard drive failure without getting into complexity of RAID.
- I can selectively choose what to backup which means my backup NAS doesn't have to be the same size as my primary NAS.
- Given I only need to backup on a weekly basis, I have scheduled my backup NAS to power on for a 30 minute window each week. During which the full back up process is easily complete. This saves a lot of energy cost overall.
I think my single drive solution will soon reach a physical upper storage limit and I'll need to upgrade to a multi drive NAS. My questions are:
- Are there any good low powered 2 or 4 drive NAS?
- Is the above strategy still workable/worth it for a 2 or 4 drive NAS (i.e. I don't use redundancy RAID, because my NAS to NAS backup covers me for the data loss I might incur)?
Thoughts?