NAS question (again) =)

[bambam1020]

good day, 

 

         i have been reading a lot about NAS, mainly because im planning on setting up one for personal use. it will be use as data center for all our media needs, mostly movies.

 

         my question is, would it be more ok if i will hard wire it? im worried that if i will stream it via our network, the movie will lag. i will use my samsung homesync as the main media console, the homesync will be then conected to the smart tv

 

 also what would you advice that i will use? RAID O, 1, 5 or 10?

 

thank you for the advance answer =)

[Gofspar]

If you have a decent router it will be fine both ways, I tuck mine in a closet and use a AC-68 Asus adapter and it NEVER stutters.

[bambam1020]

If you have a decent router it will be fine both ways, I tuck mine in a closet and use a AC-68 Asus adapter and it NEVER stutters.

 

thanks for the quick reply,, 

 

i just want to add, what configuration do you advice?

 

RAID 0? is this also same with yours?

[bambam1020]

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[Blade of Grass]

Personally, I would suggest RAID 5/6. RAID 6 is preferable due to the write hole issue with RAID 5, but both are better than RAID 0 (which is effectively negative redundancy).

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Use whatever suits your needs. I have mine in RAID 0 because it was only a 4-bay prebuilt NAS and I needed the most disk space I could put in it at the time, but I do have backups in case that goes wrong.

[Padunkadunk]

I would hardline it if I were you unless you have a bomb router. Also, I would use Raid 5 for up to 5 total disks and Raid 6 after that for the reasons stated above.

[bambam1020]

I would hardline it if I were you unless you have a bomb router. Also, I would use Raid 5 for up to 5 total disks and Raid 6 after that for the reasons stated above.

Thank you all for the reply..

Sir as i understand from your post, i will use both raid 5 and 6? Combination of both?

I want more of security. One of my portable hard dive failed and all of my 1terabite of movies gone..

[Padunkadunk]

Thank you all for the reply..

Sir as i understand from your post, i will use both raid 5 and 6? Combination of both?

I want more of security. One of my portable hard dive failed and all of my 1terabite of movies gone..

You will use one or the other depending on how many drives you're willing to sacrifice to parity. If security is your concern, RAID 6 is safer between the two.

[bambam1020]

You will use one or the other depending on how many drives you're willing to sacrifice to parity. If security is your concern, RAID 6 is safer between the two.

My plan is to get 4bay NAS. I will do further reading about raid6. Im still new to this and im willing to learn

[Padunkadunk]

If you're only going to have four drives, I would recommend RAID 5 so you have 75% usable space vs 50%.

[bambam1020]

If you're only going to have four drives, I would recommend RAID 5 so you have 75% usable space vs 50%.

As what i read.. synology is already configured to raid0 out of the box.. i can still configure this to raid5?

[Padunkadunk]

I think you can set up parity in the Synology Diskstation software, although I have no first hand experience.

[DirkW]

Synology offers many different RAID levels, depending on which product you choose. I doubt RAID 0 will be the default on any of their devices, though...