My Big Scare with a NAS...

Very good Nico! That should work a lot better for you. That is a crazy amount of space... I mean, dam... you will probably have about 24 TB or so space available.

Considering that I have almost 1000 albums (a couple hundred CD rips and the rest are high resolution downloads and SACD rips), many of which are DSD (several hundred) including 50+ that are DSD128 & DSD256, etc., and I have only about 2-2.5 TB of space being taken up.
 
After I had a HDD failure (first in 10 years), I now keep an off-site backup to prevent future issues. easy peasy.

I paid $400 for the guy to get the data off my old drive - not much actually as it took him several days, sector by sector. Also did some upgrades to the Mac Mini while in the shop so it came back a new machine :)
 
Randy Myers said:
Very good Nico! That should work a lot better for you. That is a crazy amount of space... I mean, dam... you will probably have about 24 TB or so space available.

Considering that I have almost 1000 albums (a couple hundred CD rips and the rest are high resolution downloads and SACD rips), many of which are DSD (several hundred) including 50+ that are DSD128 & DSD256, etc., and I have only about 2-2.5 TB of space being taken up.
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With five 6TBdrives, I get about 22TB available for data storage. If I select dual disk redundancy, I would end up with 16T available for data. Either way, a huge amount and definitely much more than I need! I hope that I will not have to worry about storage space ever!
 
I find that many people misunderstand raid/nas drives. Because you have multiple drives does not mean you have anything backed up. A virus or corruption on 1 drive can populate to all drives. I always keep a complete backup in a static proof bag in a cardboard box. I also have a couple friends holding a drive for me.
 
Lets not forget the way Nas enclosures format drives so they are not easily readable. It's designed that way so if someone walks off with a drive they won't be able to read it. I just had an intermittent drive in my primary Nas and when I tried to format it in my computer it couldn't. It showed the 2TB drive as only having about 200MB. I used disk management and forced a format. It now shows 2TB. I gave it to my son to use in his computer telling him it is very flaky. The Nas did rebuild the drive once but failed the second time over a 2 week period.
 
Glad to hear you got your data back. I have a couple of Drobo units and have upgraded their capacity over the years. I think they are all 4TB drives, been using WD Reds which have been extremely reliable compared to Seagates (boo!). My main digital music collection is in a large Synology box. I use the Synology version of RAID 5 (called SHR) which allows you to mix and match drive sizes. The box has 12 drives which I have completely populated with 8TB drives. Synology has a system where it is constantly monitoring the health of the drives (bad segments, etc) and sends a message when the drives are getting weak, so you can replace them before they fail. I have about 60TB of music files, including the 40TB from my giant ripping project (10,000 vinyl and tape albums at 192/24). In addition to the Synology Raid backup, I have two completely separate sets of backups, on external drives. One is at home and the other in two big safe deposit boxes in the local bank. Really important point made earlier that the Box itself can fail, or get infected, taking more than one drive down, so external backups are mandatory.

Larry
 
wisnon said:
Agreed. I don't do regular backup though, I do bull redundancy that is never turned on again except if I ever need to restore, and only then. They suffer no wear and tear as they are never energised.
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Typo...FULL redundancy.

I use the JBOD option. 18tb with about 2 TB of duplications that I cant be bothered to track down and delete, as its not a simple process. Is it a true duplication or a different mastering or upsampled version? It takes time to review and decide and its not worth it to me.
 
Kingrex said:
I find that many people misunderstand raid/nas drives. Because you have multiple drives does not mean you have anything backed up. A virus or corruption on 1 drive can populate to all drives. I always keep a complete backup in a static proof bag in a cardboard box. I also have a couple friends holding a drive for me.
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Yup, I do the friend thing too. LoL
Only the paranoid stay safe. LoL
 
Randy Myers said:
If you fill that amount up you would never be able to listen to them all :)...
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To me that does not matter...if someone discusses an album or track, I like the fact that I have a high chance of having it in my library to go review. Streaming is nice, but you don't own the Cloud, the Cloud "owns" you. Heheheh
 
astrotoy said:
Glad to hear you got your data back. I have a couple of Drobo units and have upgraded their capacity over the years. I think they are all 4TB drives, been using WD Reds which have been extremely reliable compared to Seagates (boo!). My main digital music collection is in a large Synology box. I use the Synology version of RAID 5 (called SHR) which allows you to mix and match drive sizes. The box has 12 drives which I have completely populated with 8TB drives. Synology has a system where it is constantly monitoring the health of the drives (bad segments, etc) and sends a message when the drives are getting weak, so you can replace them before they fail. I have about 60TB of music files, including the 40TB from my giant ripping project (10,000 vinyl and tape albums at 192/24). In addition to the Synology Raid backup, I have two completely separate sets of backups, on external drives. One is at home and the other in two big safe deposit boxes in the local bank. Really important point made earlier that the Box itself can fail, or get infected, taking more than one drive down, so external backups are mandatory.

Larry
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My hat is off to you, Sir Larry!
 
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