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    To RAID or not to RAID? What is the benefit?

    complete picture Like many thousand of people I am adopting NAS for home use to provide shared storage, media server, mail server and centralised backup for home PCs etc. I recognise the need for backups to be held separately, but cannot afford a separate second NAS for this. I would expect to...
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    To RAID or not to RAID? What is the benefit?

    Backup Regime Vs RAID1 Good interesting points. I am in same position as the original post but confused on choosing HDDs. Now I see I am potentially better to use second disk for backup rather than to run RAID1. However there are some related questions on merits of RAID1 vs backup: By not...
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    Should You Use TLER Drives In Your RAID NAS?

    Clear as Mud I have just bought a Synology DS211 which I plan to run in RAID 1 as a home file store/mail server/media server. I remain completely confused about whether to choose desktop or enterprise HDDs to go in my new NAS.:confused: The whole point of running RAID 1 (and most other RAID...
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