Hi all, I'm new to OMV and NAS in general. In order to gain familiarity, I tinkered with some old hardware which I thought I could re-purpose. My sig shows the hardware that I'm using. I've been away from the tech scene for quite a while so I don't really know what good looks like.
What are your thoughts? Is this a highly inefficient setup for a NAS? What is considered a good spec?
I have ordered two 8TB WD Red disks (16TB total). I have about 2TB worth of important data that I don't want to lose.. the rest is just media. Do I need RAID? Is my spec sufficient for a NAS? OMV works well so I think it is okay, however, I don't want to start using it in anger only to realise that I have a critical point of failure somewhere. Few more details:
- I've installed USB Backup - this works very well. I intend to backup my important data fortnightly or so. My issue with USB Backup is that the hard drive that I attach to the NAS always stays on. To counter this, I intend to manually connect the hard drive every 2 weeks, run USB backup overnight, then disconnect the drive in the morning.
- I intend to install syncthing (is this the most popular option?) in order to use the nas as a centralised file server to my laptop/PC/Mobile (in order to get away from dropbox)
- I'm presently using NFS. Should I be using ZFS?
Apologies for all the questions and muddled post. Hope this makes sense! Any feedback would be appreciated!
Thanks,
RS