Synology DS110J & DS212J

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Hi all,

I am looking at getting a 2nd NAS drive in my house, purely for my RAW files. I already have a WD MyBookLive which is about 75% full of HD Films and Tv series etc.

My plan is this:
  • House all my RAWs from the past few years on the NAS (around 500GB so far)
  • Import of new photos go straight onto the NAS
  • I am running 2 laptops and a desktop PC - all of which are on the same home network
  • Do my image processing and editing on any of my PC or Laptops, and save back onto the NAS - so each device is kept "up to date" with the latest copy / processing etc
  • Perform a daily backup of the Photos folder on the NAS drive to an internal 1TB HDD inside my desktop PC
  • Perform a 2nd backup (weekly) onto a USB drive that is connected into the back of the Synology unit

Now my question is, does that sound like enough backups to you? I also have the choice of getting a RAID'd NAS drive, for one extra level of data redundancy - but it pretty much doubles the cost, and Im not convinced I need it?
If so, would I be better of getting the single-bay DS110J unit?

Also....with regards to the external USB drive connected to the back of the unit - I plan to leave this running 24/7 365days a year - so that my weekly backups are fully automated and there is no chance of me forgetting to have it connected and therefore missing a backup..

Any comments / advice you can give on this at all?

Thank you :)
 
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A house fire would destroy the computers, nas, and the backup drive. You would be best off getting another external drive and keep it offsite. Every so often take your more updated external to the other location and swap them over. For recent stuff that's important keep a copy on something like Dropbox at least until the offsite backup s updated.
 
With regard to raid then either way your data is safe as you have the external drive with a backup of the data. The difference will be what happens if a drive dies. Without raid you need to but a new drive and then set it up again and copy all the data across which will take a long time. With raid it all carries on working and you just replace the faulty drive without even needing to turn off the nas.
So for home use you probably won't need raid but it depends how frequently you use the storage.
 
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