Migration from Netgear NAS drives to Asustor

[Hobbesy]

Hi,

I'm currently running two Netgear NAS Ultra 2's which are ageing and I would like to try a new supplier with much improved functionality and support. Looking at a couple of Asustor lockerstore 6702T' s. It's a small business / home set up with only 2 users but the data is incredibly important which is why I decided to have a fully redundant hot pluggable NAS which is backed up to a secondary identical box so I'm doubly covered for disc failure and chassis failure.

Questions really on which discs to populate with and whether to add in ssd's to improve performance from the start. I would like to implement an ip camera security system and maybe a plex server. The every day data is more documents, presentations etc than video editing.

I need about 5tb of useable storage whilst having a fully redundant hot pluggable system.

Any advice / experiences good and bad appreciated.

Cheers

Rob

[Nazar78]

For redundancy, you would require at least RAID1, which means two of your slots are already taken up by HDDs, so no slots for SSDs caching. For performance wise, you should utilize the M.2 slots initializing the NVMes as volume1 (location for apps most user data) prior to the RAID1 volume2.

[Hobbesy]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.
I might be misunderstanding something but I'm slightly puzzled by your point that I will have populated the main two drive bays with HDD's so there won't be any room for SSD's.

I thought the M.2. NWMe slots were specifically there to be populated by M.2 SSD's, given this machine (2 bay model) has 4 NVMe slots I could have 4 additional SSD's...

Could you explain where I might be misunderstanding this?

Thanks

[Nazar78]

Yes you can use the m.2 as caching. Unless my setup is a slightly slower RAID5/6 parity, frankly for RAID1 HDDs, I would skip caching and instead use the m.2s as volume1 for apps. This will also allow the HDDs to sleep better.