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Originally Posted by hobnail
Is it safe to put the calibre libraries on a NAS if it's only accessed from, in my case, my one and only Windows computer? I was thinking that a raid 5 setup with 3 or more drives would be safer than my random once a month backups to a USB drive. And I'm hoping that a NAS will do all of the SMB things that Windows needs.
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It all depends on the implementation on the NAS. For the units that I tested a few years back, none passed the Microsoft File Server Family Test Suite which is designed to test implementations of file server protocol family including MS-SMB2, MS-DFSC, MS-SWN, MS-FSRVP, MS-FSA, MS-FSCC, MS-RSVD and MS-SQOS with any consistency. Admittedly some of those are a bit obscure but something that should be essential such as file locking failed on several of the NAS units I got to test. Admittedly, the final solution we went with was a Nimble all-SSD SAN.