So confused

[apaar123]

Where do you keep you nas in your room? I will be buying a 12bay nas so need some space. Also how do you backup it? Do you use raid 1 or some other method? Please let me know thank you 

[Schakal_No1]

1. RAID is no backup

2. a 12 bay NAS will be pretty loud while in use, I hope you do not plan on working in the same room

 

What do you plan on doing with this?

[itachikurosaki121]

i have mine in a raid 6 and keep it in the room where my personal rig is at if you have a garage or some place where it will be cool to keep at for the summer would be a good spot. But in the garage i would maintenance it more often due to dust build up.

[apaar123]

2 minutes ago, Schakal_No1 said:

1. RAID is no backup

2. a 12 bay NAS will be pretty loud while in use, I hope you do not plan on working in the same room

 

What do you plan on doing with this?

I just need to store all my stuff like movies,games and all

[apaar123]

2 minutes ago, itachikurosaki121 said:

i have mine in a raid 6 and keep it in the room where my personal rig is at if you have a garage or some place where it will be cool to keep at for the summer would be a good spot. But in the garage i would maintenance it more often due to dust build up.

My room will be cool

[itachikurosaki121]

Just now, apaar123 said:

My room will be cool

then it should be fine  i have 8 drives going on in my computer room i dont really notice the noise from my server but i would take that into consideration maybe if it will be in your room keeping it in a closet but also sure that your nas can adequately cool itself in that confined space.

[apaar123]

2 minutes ago, itachikurosaki121 said:

then it should be fine  i have 8 drives going on in my computer room i dont really notice the noise from my server but i would take that into consideration maybe if it will be in your room keeping it in a closet but also sure that your nas can adequately cool itself in that confined space.

Yeah I think I should find a closet. Also do you know how can I stream.movies from my nas to my TV downstairs

[Schakal_No1]

Just now, apaar123 said:

Yeah I think I should find a closet. Also do you know how can I stream.movies from my nas to my TV downstairs

that depends on which NAS you get. Most of them support plex.

[apaar123]

2 minutes ago, Schakal_No1 said:

that depends on which NAS you get. Most of them support plex.

I will be getting synology and I guess it has

[Schakal_No1]

regarding the raid level, are you storing critical data or just data that would suck if it would be lost? In the latter case go with raid6 (two disks as parity, so if you have 12x10TB you get 10x10TB therefore 100TB of data) but any 2 disks can fail.

In the first case if the data is truely critical you need a second raid on a remote location.

[apaar123]

7 minutes ago, Schakal_No1 said:

regarding the raid level, are you storing critical data or just data that would suck if it would be lost? In the latter case go with raid6 (two disks as parity, so if you have 12x10TB you get 10x10TB therefore 100TB of data) but any 2 disks can fail.

In the first case if the data is truely critical you need a second raid on a remote location.

No not that important since its just movies and stuff but they are big size movies 

[itachikurosaki121]

34 minutes ago, apaar123 said:

I will be getting synology and I guess it has

If it has plex on it all you have to do is just sign up for plex for free off their website and as long as the TV you have can download the plex app you should be good to go if your TV is not a smart tv you can use an xbox one or ps4 and download the plex app on the counsel and if you do put it in a closet make sure you have a long enough cat5 or cat6 Ethernet cable....if you are going to do really big file transfers i would go with a cat6 cable.

[apaar123]

3 minutes ago, itachikurosaki121 said:

If it has plex on it all you have to do is just sign up for plex for free off their website and as long as the TV you have can download the plex app you should be good to go if your TV is not a smart tv you can use an xbox one or ps4 and download the plex app on the counsel and if you do put it in a closet make sure you have a long enough cat5 or cat6 Ethernet cable....if you are going to do really big file transfers i would go with a cat6 cable.

I have a smart TV and I will be using cat 6 cable. Is there a range at which TV and nas should be placed?

[Schakal_No1]

1 minute ago, apaar123 said:

I have a smart TV and I will be using cat 6 cable. Is there a range at which TV and nas should be placed?

the cables should be shorter than 100m, otherwise there is no limit.

[apaar123]

4 minutes ago, Schakal_No1 said:

the cables should be shorter than 100m, otherwise there is no limit.

So I can stream from my my nas to my tv downstairs?

[Schakal_No1]

6 minutes ago, apaar123 said:

So I can stream from my my nas to my tv downstairs?

yes

[apaar123]

2 minutes ago, Schakal_No1 said:

yes

Great thanks