Newbie DNS-320 - strategy options - 4 questions
Hi
First, I hope you don't mind someone joining you experts from the other hemisphere but you seem to be pioneers with the 320. I see this longgggggggg thread started in Nov 2010. Is it a record
I've read this thread and many others but would still appreciate some advice.
I have a desktop PC with 230GB HD that's full. 150MB is for backups (daily/weekly/monthly/6 monthly and ad-hoc) and 30GB for media, mainly photos. The backup files then get moved to an external hard disk - also full. The PC HD is split into partitions C: to S: the higher letter drives P: to S: are the slow changing data archives, media files and backup data.
I've got a DNS-320 with a 1TB WD HD. I thought of simply moving the higher partitions P: to S: to the 320 keeping the drive letters the same.
Q1. Is there a simple hack to partition the 320? (I'm not familiar with Linux). If so, will the 320 software keep running as normal (no RAID needed).
Q2. Is there a hack to power it off? (I going to store it in a remote location in the house).
Q3. Seems there is no way of remotely powering it up though. I read I can power it down by pulling the plug and then it will auto start on power restore. Is that wise?, especially as I can't see how to disable write-caching.
Q4. Anyone any experience of backing up the 320 to Amazon AWS?
Plan B is to put the 1TB in the PC and the 230GM in the 320 and use it for backup. That makes it an expensive caddy! and it will be full in another 6 months or so. But by then HD prices may be down and I could buy another 1TB. But I don't like the idea of there being a single 1TB partition. Backups are more difficult and surely performance drops as the files get fragmented.
Sorry it's a bit of a long first thread.
Alan
P.S. We say you live "down-under". What do you call us in the UK and Europe - "up-over"