Hi everyone,
I recently started playing around with my brand new DS423 NAS. I set up my two 4TB drives in RAID 1 and have been exploring the system for about a week.
At this point, I took a moment to reflect on my setup:
- For my use case (home use, family photos/videos, some documents), I don't really need RAID redundancy. In case of disk failure, I can afford to lose access to my files temporarily while restoring a backup.
- I would like to use the storage space of the first drive + a portion of the second one.
- Besides "important" files, I'll also have "trivial" files that I don't need to back up (movies and similar).
That said, I'm considering reorganizing things as follows:
- Dro