Hi,
fairly new to the world of Synology NAS. I am about to take delivery of a DS920+ with 4 times 4TB. My question is about the storage pools/storage volumes.
I would like to pair the hard drives as follow: one pair for business and one pair for personal stuff (for each pair there is the main drive, while the other drive is used for backup).
Given my "idea" of setup,
- should I create one single RAID6 storage pool (and have 4 volumes - one for business, one for business's backup, one for personal stuff and the last one for backup of personal stuff)
- or is it wiser to create two RAID1 storage pools (each pool would have 2 volumes and hence one pool for business and one for personal).
I guess having multiple pools is less efficient as a single one (?) I am leaning towards the one-pool solution. However, given that I am fairly new to nas, does it make sense? or shall I go for another type of RAID?
fairly new to the world of Synology NAS. I am about to take delivery of a DS920+ with 4 times 4TB. My question is about the storage pools/storage volumes.
I would like to pair the hard drives as follow: one pair for business and one pair for personal stuff (for each pair there is the main drive, while the other drive is used for backup).
Given my "idea" of setup,
- should I create one single RAID6 storage pool (and have 4 volumes - one for business, one for business's backup, one for personal stuff and the last one for backup of personal stuff)
- or is it wiser to create two RAID1 storage pools (each pool would have 2 volumes and hence one pool for business and one for personal).
I guess having multiple pools is less efficient as a single one (?) I am leaning towards the one-pool solution. However, given that I am fairly new to nas, does it make sense? or shall I go for another type of RAID?