Is this a valid concern:
If I use a two-bay NAS and mirror the drives, and use QNAP or Synology, if the controller/electronics fail, am I hosed? Can I take one of these drives and put it into a Linux machine and mount it as a common Linux file system? And then get at my data?
Versus
A "NAS", one-bay, to get the NASes serving software features, but backup the one bay drive to second external drive connected by eSATA or USB, where that drive assuredly will be readable under Linux or if FAT32/NTFS, readable under Windows. The backup would be a volume sync or program like SecondCopy or whatever, rather than RAID. This protects from a NAS controller fault.
My current system is a Windows PC with motherboard RAID1. Though I've not confirmed, if the motherboard smokes, I supposedly have two ordinary NTFS disks that can be data disks in any windows PC.
If I use a two-bay NAS and mirror the drives, and use QNAP or Synology, if the controller/electronics fail, am I hosed? Can I take one of these drives and put it into a Linux machine and mount it as a common Linux file system? And then get at my data?
Versus
A "NAS", one-bay, to get the NASes serving software features, but backup the one bay drive to second external drive connected by eSATA or USB, where that drive assuredly will be readable under Linux or if FAT32/NTFS, readable under Windows. The backup would be a volume sync or program like SecondCopy or whatever, rather than RAID. This protects from a NAS controller fault.
My current system is a Windows PC with motherboard RAID1. Though I've not confirmed, if the motherboard smokes, I supposedly have two ordinary NTFS disks that can be data disks in any windows PC.