I notice the description does say “Up to 16TB of centralized storage for your entire network.” though which would indicate 2x8TB drives, following that logic anyways ...
Furthermore could just be a discrepancy with Amazon description as the model in title looked up on other sites indicates what others have answered as well that this would be 2x4TB drives. So, misleading.
Your storage will not be "halved" as RAID1 is called "mirroring", which means it's an exact copy of the other disk. Both drives have to be of the same manufacturer and capacity for RAID to work. If you buy 2x 8TB drives, you will have 8TB's of storage. The whole point of a NAS is storage, so going RAID0 "striping" i…
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Your storage will not be "halved" as RAID1 is called "mirroring", which means it's an exact copy of the other disk. Both drives have to be of the same manufacturer and capacity for RAID to work. If you buy 2x 8TB drives, you will have 8TB's of storage. The whole point of a NAS is storage, so going RAID0 "striping" is just shooting yourself in the foot because if one drive fails then all data is lost, which defeats the purpose of having a Network Attached Storage device in the first place. You shouldn't need a NAS device backing up a NAS device if the entire point of buying a NAS device is storage to begin with.
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Your storage will not be "halved" as RAID1 is called "mirroring", which means it's an exact copy of the other disk. Both drives have to be of the same manufacturer and capacity for RAID to work. If you buy 2x 8TB drives, you will have 8TB's of storage. The whole point of a NAS is storage, so going RAID0 "striping" is just shooting yourself in the foot because if one drive fails then all data is lost, which defeats the purpose of having a Network Attached Storage device in the first place. You shouldn't need a NAS device backing up a NAS device if the entire point of buying a NAS device is storage to begin with.
Well I kind of agree here to a point. 1). Using RAID0 will double your storage, and give twice the seek time. Transfer speed however is a moot point because you are limited to the network speed 1000Mb/s (megabits) about 125Megabytes so RAID 0 will not help with that, but it does double seek time. 2). Funny people alway…
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Well I kind of agree here to a point. 1). Using RAID0 will double your storage, and give twice the seek time. Transfer speed however is a moot point because you are limited to the network speed 1000Mb/s (megabits) about 125Megabytes so RAID 0 will not help with that, but it does double seek time. 2). Funny people always say if using RAID0 and 1 drive fails you loose all data, TRUE! but this also applies to using 1 single drive, if it fails you still loose all data, but if using raid 1 for parity solves it, but at the expense of half your storage. 3). So I agree if parity is important, but just as fast network drive for movies, and random file storage none of this matters. I think a network drive is only good for fast and dirty file storage. If it's important I would not be using a piece of junk like this in the first place. But I think any raid would be Okay with this. I just would not use it for important backup, but as a storage only. back it up to an external or something.
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Well I kind of agree here to a point. 1). Using RAID0 will double your storage, and give twice the seek time. Transfer speed however is a moot point because you are limited to the network speed 1000Mb/s (megabits) about 125Megabytes so RAID 0 will not help with that, but it does double seek time. 2). Funny people always say if using RAID0 and 1 drive fails you loose all data, TRUE! but this also applies to using 1 single drive, if it fails you still loose all data, but if using raid 1 for parity solves it, but at the expense of half your storage. 3). So I agree if parity is important, but just as fast network drive for movies, and random file storage none of this matters. I think a network drive is only good for fast and dirty file storage. If it's important I would not be using a piece of junk like this in the first place. But I think any raid would be Okay with this. I just would not use it for important backup, but as a storage only. back it up to an external or something.
Well it will be halved if its 2 4TB drives and its advertised as 8 TB and RAID 1 means you get 4TB. They don't say how many drives are included of what size its tough to say. maybe the 8 TB is one drive why not be clear.
Furthermore could just be a discrepancy with Amazon description as the model in title looked up on other sites indicates what others have answered as well that this would be 2x4TB drives. So, misleading.