nas NAS advice and hard drive selection

[DragonFruit]

I have a small business where I'm thinking about buying and implementing this NAS system here. 

 

The primary purpose of this is to have an on-site cloud for backing up all the computers (around 8) as they all have about 100-150GB on each of them amongst other benefits such as speed and such. 

I've never done this before but am thinking about getting two, 1T RAID 1, drives to use for backups. any advice, need to knows, etc. for someone setting up something like this for the first time?

any comments appreciated  

[Salacious B Crum]

Get a pair of WD red 4TB give yourself some headroom your already at 1TB without it once you have it setup you will find use for that extra space

[Radium_Angel]

47 minutes ago, DragonFruit said:

I have a small business where I'm thinking about buying and implementing this NAS system here. 

 

The primary purpose of this is to have an on-site cloud for backing up all the computers (around 8) as they all have about 100-150GB on each of them amongst other benefits such as speed and such. 

I've never done this before but am thinking about getting two, 1T RAID 1, drives to use for backups. any advice, need to knows, etc. for someone setting up something like this for the first time?

any comments appreciated  

You want to do a proper RAID, with level 5 and 4 drives (3 for data, one for parity)

If data is your lifeblood of your business, don't skimp out on this. Spend the right cash, write it off on taxes, and keep regular backups in your cloud account (assuming you have the bandwidth) and all will be well.

[Electronics Wizardy]

I just got one of these at work and they work well.

I have 2 4tb ironwolf drives in shr and they work well. 

 

id get 2tb or bigger drives. bigger drives are a better value, and the space needed will probably go up and bigger drives are also a bit faster.

 

 

[DragonFruit]

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

You want to do a proper RAID, with level 5 and 4 drives (3 for data, one for parity)

If data is your lifeblood of your business, don't skimp out on this. Spend the right cash, write it off on taxes, and keep regular backups in your cloud account (assuming you have the bandwidth) and all will be well.

So since this is a two drive NAS your suggestion is to upgrade to a higher drive capacity, get 4 drives, and configure it to raid 5 for best performance?  

[Radium_Angel]

7 hours ago, DragonFruit said:

So since this is a two drive NAS your suggestion is to upgrade to a higher drive capacity, get 4 drives, and configure it to raid 5 for best performance?  

Correct. You have to work under the assumption that you *will* suffer a data loss, or drive failure at some point in time. It's a mathematical certainty. But if you have a proper level of RAID, and a solid backup plan, then a drive death won't impact you at all.

 

So the question you have to ask yourself is, how much is your data worth?

Ifd the stuff you do is critical, then don't skimp on this.

If you can afford to lose data, then feel free to ignore my advice

(for the record, I am in the IT field, with decades of experience.)