Hi!
I've recently bought a new/bigger HDD for my Synology DS218+.
I slapped it into the NAS, formatted it to ext4/jbod and copied all the shared folders onto the new drive.
Now I have totally 3 HDD's for the NAS. The first one is from a few years back with 10TB, the second 16TB and the new one 24TB.
The 16TB and 24TB are currently inside the DS218+, but the 16TB should be removed and stored as backup.
My plan is, to slap the 10TB into a HDD enclosure and backup every new copied stuff that gets copied over to the NAS also on this drive.
So in total that would make 1x24TB inside = 1x16TB + 1x10TB as backup.
But what is, if the NAS itself dies? Is it easy to access the ext4/jbod data and recover it from a normal windows/linux PC?
Is it a good Idea to take out the 16TB and store it as it comes out from the Synology without any formatting/copying?
Thank you for your help!