About NAS and RAID...

[it_geek]

Thinking of getting a second hand NAS with 8TB in RAID 5 configuration.


Wanted to hear about the experiences that users have here with their NAS. Do you all leave it on 24/7 or turn it on only as needed?


Anybody who has had good luck not needing to rebuild their RAID/drive replacement/deal with RAID failures and catastrophes?


Hoping to hear from you all!

 

[ronnie_gogs]

QNAP 5 WD 2TB drives. TS-563. On all the time for the past 2 years. 0 failures till now.

 

[xonix]

Whether to run 24/7 is purely up to your own usage. Other users experience may not apply to your usage pattern. If you need to constantly access drive continents, by all means leave it on.

The whole idea of have a raid file system is to provide redundancy in case of hdd failure. It is NOT designed to "prevent" failure.

 

[jtjt00]

Synology Ds418 with Toshiba 7200rpm 2TB, 64 hrs per week.

 

[squarepipe]

reddit.com/r/datahoarder

Or

reddit.com/r/homelab

Personally use zfs instead of raid

 

[batniss]

Thinking of getting a second hand NAS with 8TB in RAID 5 configuration.


Wanted to hear about the experiences that users have here with their NAS. Do you all leave it on 24/7 or turn it on only as needed?


Anybody who has had good luck not needing to rebuild their RAID/drive replacement/deal with RAID failures and catastrophes?


Hoping to hear from you all!

Synology DS1512+ - 24/7 - 3 years until it was sold
Synology DS1515+ - 24/7 - 3years+ and it is still running.

 

[batniss]

Anyone here who has used a NETGEAR NAS before?

Yes, at work. If you just want a place to hold your files, it is decent.

Any idea why you are looking at Netgear NAS ?

 

[jtjt00]

Sorry for the bump.


Wanted to try something less mainstream.


Thinking of starting out with a 2nd hand NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+, before moving on the RND628X series.

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Unless you are an expert with NAS, better stay with more established one like Synology just in case you run into issues.

 

[ckling]

I m using qnap and asustor since 2016, 24x7, so far ok

 

[Mugenpower78]

synology 1813 + 4 years and no issue until now hopefully

 

[existential_reality]

I run a Synolgy 2413+, previously was a mix of Seagate NAS drives/ WD Reds and HGST. 24/7 under a desk with no air con in the day so far no issues except an occasional drive kicking up a Smart issue. Its been running for maybe 4/5 years now.

I've expanded the volume by swapping out the drives and the expansion process though tedious was quite straightfwd, additionally synology has their own proprietary RAID (called SHR) which expands the volume accordingly with each drive you swap out (assuming you swap it out with a higher cap drive). Not sure if traditional RAID would support this.

Previously I used other brands like Thecus, Dlink the former had garbage OS and irregularly updates the latter was limited in apps interface and support forums. I would suggest Synology cause it has a strong community to do troubleshooting and a multitude of apps to interface with the NAS.

Thinking of getting a second hand NAS with 8TB in RAID 5 configuration.


Wanted to hear about the experiences that users have here with their NAS. Do you all leave it on 24/7 or turn it on only as needed?


Anybody who has had good luck not needing to rebuild their RAID/drive replacement/deal with RAID failures and catastrophes?


Hoping to hear from you all!

 

[terry1]

i will never store my valuable data on these nas, maybe as a duplicate copy. even the industry standard hardware raid also tends to fail occasionally. the difference is when you replace a failed industry standard hardware raid card with a good one on your servers, it rebuilds itself and you have your data again. these nas makers will not promise you that you may be able to retrieve your stored data on these nas if it fails especially with their proprietary raids.

are you able to pull one of these hard disc out of the box during a write operation and it would rebuilds itself if the hard disc is plucked back into the nas

 

[gigigigi]

good NAS should have auto power down function. Meaning your HDD should be put to stand by mode when no data access needed, even though the NAS itself always on.
If you keep your HDD working non stop 24/7 then more or less will subject your HDD to normal wear and tear as designed by manufacturer.

on RAID side, any drive failure (within redundancy) will necessitate replacement of failed drive and rebuilding the array. The rebuilding process and requirement will depend on the NAS itself (OS, hardware, config, etc)
When draive failure exceed redundancy, the RAID array will fail. the amount of data lost depend on the RAID system. can be all of them, or just those on the damaged drive.

All have their own pro and cons. you need to know what you need/want.

 

[Soul77]

How about using old desktop and setup software raid?

 

[uncle_josh]

some old desktop support hardware raid. You got to check your desktop manual/user guides.

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