- Apr 19, 2018
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Hello Everyone,
I recently bought a 4 bay Synology that I'm going to use to store my media files. Given that the total amount of data is going to be around 15 TB, I purchased six hard drives (6 TB each). My initial plan was to use three of the 6 TB hard drives for the media files, then use the other three hard drives to create a full backup that would be stored offsite. Since I don't want to give up any hard drive space using Raid 1, Raid 5, etc., I assumed that I would need to create a basic (no raid) volume for the media files on each hard drive and then back each one up using the other three hard drives.
However, I wanted to ask about the possibility of creating a single expanded volume of approximately 18 TB across the three hard drives using Raid 0. I'm pretty sure I can do that with the Synology and I like the idea of having a single expanded volume. However, I'm wondering how I would go about backing up that single expanded volume with the remaining three hard drives? Is there a way to split the expanded volume equally into 3 parts when backing it up so that each part would fit on my three remaining hard drives? I'm assuming not, but figured I'd ask since I have no experience working with Raid or expanded volumes.
I recently bought a 4 bay Synology that I'm going to use to store my media files. Given that the total amount of data is going to be around 15 TB, I purchased six hard drives (6 TB each). My initial plan was to use three of the 6 TB hard drives for the media files, then use the other three hard drives to create a full backup that would be stored offsite. Since I don't want to give up any hard drive space using Raid 1, Raid 5, etc., I assumed that I would need to create a basic (no raid) volume for the media files on each hard drive and then back each one up using the other three hard drives.
However, I wanted to ask about the possibility of creating a single expanded volume of approximately 18 TB across the three hard drives using Raid 0. I'm pretty sure I can do that with the Synology and I like the idea of having a single expanded volume. However, I'm wondering how I would go about backing up that single expanded volume with the remaining three hard drives? Is there a way to split the expanded volume equally into 3 parts when backing it up so that each part would fit on my three remaining hard drives? I'm assuming not, but figured I'd ask since I have no experience working with Raid or expanded volumes.
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