I’ve got an 8TB Home Duo now that’s running as mirrored drives (4TB Capacity) and running out of space.
It’s running fine except for the space issue.
Looking for alternatives:
1-remove the 2 4TB drives and replace with 2 8TB or more and lose the use of the backups (But if I need them, maybe I can swap out the new replacement drives and put in the old ones, use the backups I need and then put the new ones back in the box.
2-Buy a second Home Duo with larger drives and run two drives, side-by-side with new backups going to the new box.
3-Buy a new My Cloud Expert Series EX2 Ultra, learn it’s new idiosyncrasies and push forward with it.
Any suggestions?
hahaha.
The Home series has. . . a number of issues. The recent debacle regarding the “authentication server” being down for three weeks is a very concerning. Not sure about 2023, but in the past there were severe restrictions on Home features . . .such that its functionality as a basic “NAS” unit could be questioned.
The EX2 certainly has it’s idiosyncrasies - - but as a basic NAS; it works just fine. (I keep mine isolated from the internet; and am happy with it).
Note: All the OS/5 devices. . . are a bit long in the tooth at this point; and software updates are few and far between.
Thanks NAS_user. But I use my Home Duo as a location for my Time Machine backups from two Computers as well as a storage device for installation files and a group of about 100 files that I retrieve through my iPhone and attache to emails I send from the iPhone. So, I’m going to keep the Internet connection but the major concern was that the EX2 had problems being recognized as a Time Machine backup and that’s the major reason I’m using the Home Duo. I liked it better when I thought I’d never reach 4TB worth of backups on the Home Duo.
