I've been doing a lot of research and reading through the forums, but I've run into questions that appear to fall outside of the usual "which NAS should I buy" type. I've been looking at prosumer level 4/5 bay devices, like the Synology DS412+, Thecus N5550, and QNAP 469L.
My tentative home/home office network plan calls for 2 VLANs: One VLAN for my home network containing shared files, music and videos for streaming, backups for the family pcs, and assorted other stuff you'd typically find on a home network. The second VLAN is for all my business related stuff. Mostly file storage for things like VMware VMs, ISOs, computer backups, and etc., but I'd also use it for scc (Hg or Git) and an ftp server for clients. If you can decipher the chicken scratches, here's a rough sketch of what I'm thinking:
My network gear consists of a Routerboard 2011L as my gateway and a pair of Routerboard 951G as WAPs and multi-point wired drops. I'm expecting the VLANs to be static (tied to specific ports) rather than dynamic.
I've noticed it is possible to connect two different networks to NAS devices that have two network ports. I've also seen that on at least some devices (don't remember which one atm) you can restrict services to only one network port, effectively requiring users to be on the correct network in order to use it.
Q1: Is it possible to--for example--replace the 'File/Media Server' and 'FTP Server' blocks (under 'Router 3') with a single NAS device? Note the Media server is part of the home network and the FTP server is part of the work network. To be fair, I'm pretty green when it comes to network designs beyond a single subnet for home use, and what I'm proposing may not be a good idea.
Q2: Is it possible to create multiple volumes on the device and allow each one to be accessible only through a specific network port? I'd like to eliminate the possibility of having my daughters (or wife) accidentally mess up important business data.
Q3: I find the Drobo BeyondRAID (and to a lesser extent the Synology Hybrid RAID) feature very compelling. Does QNAP or Thecus have an equivalent feature?
Thanks,
Dave
My tentative home/home office network plan calls for 2 VLANs: One VLAN for my home network containing shared files, music and videos for streaming, backups for the family pcs, and assorted other stuff you'd typically find on a home network. The second VLAN is for all my business related stuff. Mostly file storage for things like VMware VMs, ISOs, computer backups, and etc., but I'd also use it for scc (Hg or Git) and an ftp server for clients. If you can decipher the chicken scratches, here's a rough sketch of what I'm thinking:
My network gear consists of a Routerboard 2011L as my gateway and a pair of Routerboard 951G as WAPs and multi-point wired drops. I'm expecting the VLANs to be static (tied to specific ports) rather than dynamic.
I've noticed it is possible to connect two different networks to NAS devices that have two network ports. I've also seen that on at least some devices (don't remember which one atm) you can restrict services to only one network port, effectively requiring users to be on the correct network in order to use it.
Q1: Is it possible to--for example--replace the 'File/Media Server' and 'FTP Server' blocks (under 'Router 3') with a single NAS device? Note the Media server is part of the home network and the FTP server is part of the work network. To be fair, I'm pretty green when it comes to network designs beyond a single subnet for home use, and what I'm proposing may not be a good idea.
Q2: Is it possible to create multiple volumes on the device and allow each one to be accessible only through a specific network port? I'd like to eliminate the possibility of having my daughters (or wife) accidentally mess up important business data.
Q3: I find the Drobo BeyondRAID (and to a lesser extent the Synology Hybrid RAID) feature very compelling. Does QNAP or Thecus have an equivalent feature?
Thanks,
Dave
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