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reliable single-bay NAS instead of 2-bay NAS?

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The big advantage of a bigger NAS isn't the number of bays, it's the processing power, IMO.

If I were to upgrade, that would be the reason. All of my data is essentially "local". The NAS is used for centralized storage and backup. If I were ever to implement VDI, or media streaming, or anything like that, I'd definitely want more horsepower. The little Marvell-based QNAP unit I have basically serves files and that's it (even though the software can do much more).
 
The big advantage of a bigger NAS isn't the number of bays, it's the processing power, IMO.

Agree 100%.

But that has nothing to do with the reliability of it (title thread). ;)
 
I still have my first pc at home.
EGA display .... '286 CPU running at 20MHz clock speed!!
20MB HD and 640K RAM.

It still runs. It's a DOS machine, too whimpy to run even early days Windows.
 
For backup how about a WD MyCloud instead of a USB3.0 HDD?
It wouldn't be running often and maybe reliability would be good.
Being networked, it doesn't have to live right next to the NAS.
 
It would be less expensive. If he didn't already own the MyCloud.
 

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