I have never had a NAS. I know what it is, and I have used them in work environments - never from home network pov.
Question and Comment:
I have a PC with several hdd's -- I have data duplicated across the drives for redundancies in case one of the drives fail -- I have a total of 30tb - ish this includes all drives and duplicated data - so my conundrum is do I use this number to calculate how much actual drive space I need in my NAS setup?
Or do I just take ONE COPY of everything - and dump it onto my NAS... I ask because I don't know how the NAS -- in what will be most likely a RAID5 configuration -- will treat the data if I have several copies of the data also on my NAS... or will it just be that the duplicated data will be all spanned across all drives -- just like any other deployment of data in a NAS...
I guess I am asking -- what is best practice -and which is a best stragegy? ONE COPY of everything on my NAS... or several copies on the NAS in different folders??
I have a ugreen 4800plus -- and I am trying to buy drives big enough to grow into - but don't want to spend more than i have to -- I initially was going to go for a RAID5 3 DISK ARRAY and have an extra drive to drop in - in the event I need to save the data - or grow my data needs.
Advice?