I recently purcashed this Synology DiskStation DS412+ 4-Bay and stocked it with 12TB (4x3TB) of storage.
Background...I had some serious HD failures in the past with segate and lost a lost of sentimental records. I am a huge advocate for the digital world but quickly learned it has its pitfalls. Since that time I've been researching my options which eventually led me to invest in the Synology system.
My situation... I run a small home business and therefore store a lot of records and data only. I have a LAN running throughout my home where multiple users access movie, music and picture files(currently at about 2TB but always growing).
My intention... Originally I had though to partition the 12 TB I have in the diskstation and have x2 of the HD's backup the files/data on the other two as well as maintaining back-ups of all other computers as required across my network. But soon came to the conclusion that using the 12TB in the disckstation as a central NAS for this would be best as data storage demands grow. So, I am looking at creating initial backups of network computers etc here on the NAS and storing and all shared data here as well. So therefore I will need to back up this NAS itself capturing all critical data across my entire home network.
I remain sceptical of on-line or remotely located storage and at this stage would prefer to simply have this back-up (Series of HD's) locally positioned in another location at home. I anticipate this to be positioned where Fire/moisture/theft risk is reduced but connected via Ethernet to the switch as is with the rest of the home network hardware.
Any suggestions?
Background...I had some serious HD failures in the past with segate and lost a lost of sentimental records. I am a huge advocate for the digital world but quickly learned it has its pitfalls. Since that time I've been researching my options which eventually led me to invest in the Synology system.
My situation... I run a small home business and therefore store a lot of records and data only. I have a LAN running throughout my home where multiple users access movie, music and picture files(currently at about 2TB but always growing).
My intention... Originally I had though to partition the 12 TB I have in the diskstation and have x2 of the HD's backup the files/data on the other two as well as maintaining back-ups of all other computers as required across my network. But soon came to the conclusion that using the 12TB in the disckstation as a central NAS for this would be best as data storage demands grow. So, I am looking at creating initial backups of network computers etc here on the NAS and storing and all shared data here as well. So therefore I will need to back up this NAS itself capturing all critical data across my entire home network.
I remain sceptical of on-line or remotely located storage and at this stage would prefer to simply have this back-up (Series of HD's) locally positioned in another location at home. I anticipate this to be positioned where Fire/moisture/theft risk is reduced but connected via Ethernet to the switch as is with the rest of the home network hardware.
Any suggestions?
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