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<p>Hi Kimo, again I recommend learning just a bit about ZFS - how it
is considered by many the ultimate file system with origins in Sun
Microsystems but still being actively developed and refined in the
open source world. It is behind many commercial products.</p>
<p>The ease and reliability of local snapshotting has saved my butt
many times over.</p>
<p>It also makes it relative simple to do a send | receive of block
changes to a remote off-site server for backups. The operating
systems with zfs support usually include rsync which further
expands your options...<br>
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<p>ZFS is part of FreeBSD [underlying FreeNAS], and can also be
implemented in Linux [although I cannot attest to its ruggedness
there]</p>
<p>IRC channels are great resources for ZFS support (and FreeBSD
also).<br>
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<p>Here's an interesting read:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://itsfoss.com/freebsd-interview-deb-goodkin/">https://itsfoss.com/freebsd-interview-deb-goodkin/</a></p>
<p>and</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/zfs.html">https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/zfs.html</a></p>
<p>I've installed FreeBSD on a large variety of hardware and use zfs
with it extensively ... FreeNAS (or NAS4Free) is there if one
wants a more appliance-like experience...</p>
<p>Last thing - exporting and importing of zfs pools means one can
take, for example, a pair of mirrored disks making up a zpool -
and move them to another piece of completely different hardware -
do a zpool import - and bingo!, you're ready to roll!<br>
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<p>Hope this is helpful,</p>
<p>-Roy</p>
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<div>I’m also interested in a new local backup RAID system. A
consultant I work with suggested I look into Synology disk
stations. Wondering whether anyone has compared these two?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,sans-serif">I want to purchase and set up a 10tb
RAID1 external hard drive system. (So that would be
two 10tb hard drives mirroring each other.) Someone
suggested that I get a QNAP Tr-002 system (example: <a
href="https://www.newegg.com/qnap-tr-002-us/p/N82E16822099076?Description=qnap%20tr-002&cm_re=qnap_tr-002-_-22-099-076-_-Product&quicklink=true"
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Does anyone know if that is a good system? It is less
expensive to get two independent single 10tb external
hard drives and use a mirroring function available as
part of Windows 10 to mirror the two drives but
someone advised me not to trust Windows 10 to do
that. Also, I was thinking of getting SAS drives
instead of NAS drives, but that is apparently a
different types of system and I don't know much about
that. Any thoughts on these things? Also, if I do
get NAS drives, which ones are best? Thanks in
advance.<br>
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