First time NAS user. Allocation of hard drive space, how to configure RAID, do I need to stay logged in?

[Charles_I]

I intend to use my new NAS drive primarily as file storage for editing video files. My plan is to have the 4 drives RAID configured with two drives for storage and the other two for simultaneous backups. I will also periodically manually backup these to an external drive. I do not want or need internet access.

I've setup the NAS (4 bay with 4 20TB drives) and created a Storage Pool (RAID SHR). The total capacity is now 54.5TB. I guess that the 54.5TB is three drives - but 5.5TB sounds like a lot for an operating system. The Storage Pool is 52.4TB. Another 2.1TB less.

Do I need to change the RAID configuration to accomplish what I want? How do I configure the RAID setup?

Do I need to stay logged in at all times to either the NAS or the Synology website? When I logged out I received an email notification that "Your Synology Account was signed out" with the message, "for security reasons, your Synology Account (my email address) automatically signed out from (my username)".

This is an initial setup so I have no data to lose and can install or reconfigure anything at this point.

Charles

 

[wrldtvlr]

Power button is what I meant, not sure what you mean by "removing power." I looked it up and see that the power button is OK as well as the web interface. "if you press and hold the button for approximately 4 seconds until the LED blinks and you hear a beep sound, your NAS will gracefully shut down."

Sorry - I took "turn off the power switch" as meaning a power strip or some external means of removing power. Pressing the blue power switch on the NAS box is a correct way to shut down.