general nas advice/concerns please

[james244]

hi there fellow forum members

I am on medical leave of absence from my job in administration

I am in a bit of a quandary at the moment

i have a great deal of entertainment on multiple external usb hard drives each ranging from 1-4 tb in size.

i didnt look ahead when i first purchased the drives over time.

i would like to buy a fairly robust nas system so that i
can centralise all my data otherwise i generate a lot of duplicate files
across each different external drive.

i have invested a fair amount of time and money into my
entertainment collection and i need a total space of 4tb. i dont need to
transcode anything and i am the only user on the network but may need to tranfer a few fairly big files each day

would you know if a nas is the best solution and if i had
two drives mirroring each other in the nas, would this be adequate safety wise/back up wise and would it also be susceptible to
data rot or bitrot?

would a reasonable decent synology nas, have adequate error detection built in, to mitigate data loss?

and could a malfunction inside the nas, for example the controller, compromise the integrity of my data?


kind regards
james244

 

[thiggins]

RAID is not backup. Data safety involves storing data in more than one physical device.

As long as you have backups of data on other drives, you don't need to worry about NAS failure. All you have is the inconvenience of recopying all the data back to the NAS after it is repaired.

All you need is a basic one-drive NAS and a 4 TB or larger drive. Or even an old computer with a large drive installed will work fine.