Comment on NAS decision paralysis
sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days agoYou cannot use drives that already have data on them in a Synology. They will be “Wiped” during the installation/initialization process. If you can save the data somewhere else you can put it back on the NAS after Installation. I don’t know if this is also the case for QNAP or Asustor.
you can definetly store data, from a Service running on a different machine, to the NAS. This is the whole point of having a NAS. Limitation is network latency and bandwith. But this is no problem for the typical home user use case. If you habe a special use case you propably already know what you need and how to do it.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Alright, cool, thanks for the heads-up regarding wiping with Synology!
Yeah, I mean, my special case is basically only that I have a lot of data and I don’t really have anywhere to store it temporarily before installing it in a NAS. 😅 So that’s why I want to just plop them in there… But I don’t know what the chest way forward would be to turn my drives into network drives. Just a small drive bay maybe.
sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I don’t know if there is a (of the shelf) DAS out there that supports using drives with existing data on them and also some additional drives with RAID in the same enclosure.
In case you don’t have some place to store the data temporarily you can just use it as it is and save SE money for a NAS.
Because I am asking myself: if you don’t have a place to store the data temporarily, where is your backup? Sounds like you don’t have one. In this case you can save for the NAS AMD use the external drive as a backup drive attached to the NAS. Win-Win maybe?
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t need support for RAID at all to begin with I think. I just need to make my existing drives network-accessible. 😁
I do not have backups at all. This is just… warez. Nothing too important to backup, really. It would just be annoying to download again.
sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
OK, then maybe a DAS where your can put your drives in and also add some additional ones. Attach it to one of your Servers and Expose them via smb/NFS.
So something like @agile_squirrel@lemmy.ml and @Ugurcan@lemmy.world mentioned.