I'm sober now and it still confuses me all the technical stuff you guys are talking about.
I currently have a 8tb qnap 412 naz setup in raid 5 because when I read the setup prompts that seemed like the best compromise.
It gets used for time machine backups for MacBook Pro with 1tb drive and iMac also with 1tb
There is also all my photos backup on it and copy of entire music collection to serve sonos
What do you guys think would be best for the above, I would like some other means of storing photos and important documents but don't really fancy paying for it to be stored in the cloud, have a huge trust issue with the amount of data we freely give to others these days.
There's one other thing that bothers me, just recently one of the drives has reported minor errors but is still working, I dud some reading and it says not to change a drive that hasn't failed on a raid 5 setup because it may not rebuild because the disk was still in use, is that true?
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