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skipster10 · 02-12-2016, 08:40 PM

I've seen the caution about storing the Calibre library on NAS. I've been running for several years with my library on a dynamic volume which is stored on an iSCSI-mounted NAS. I chose this as it allows me to treat several smaller drives as a single 12TB volume (in RAID 5 config). Windows sees the drive as a local volume. Does this config mitigate the issue of using the NAS or am I still vulnerable? Note this RAID 5 mirrors weekly to another RAID 5 (mitigating the risk of corruption due to a RAID controller failure...which I've experienced previously on an old server).

02-12-2016, 08:40 PM	#1
skipster10 Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2013 Device: iPad Pro 10.5	Calibre Library on iSCSI-mounted RAID 5 NAS I've seen the caution about storing the Calibre library on NAS. I've been running for several years with my library on a dynamic volume which is stored on an iSCSI-mounted NAS. I chose this as it allows me to treat several smaller drives as a single 12TB volume (in RAID 5 config). Windows sees the drive as a local volume. Does this config mitigate the issue of using the NAS or am I still vulnerable? Note this RAID 5 mirrors weekly to another RAID 5 (mitigating the risk of corruption due to a RAID controller failure...which I've experienced previously on an old server).