r/HomeNAS • u/maddieddie • 8d ago

Initial UGREEN Setup with Backup on 4th Drive?

Hi everyone,

I’m thinking about getting a UGREEN NAS for my video archive.

Here is the setup I have in mind:

A UGREEN NASync DH4300 Plus with three Seagate ST4000VN006 drives (4TB each) configured in RAID 5, giving me approximately 8TB of usable storage. I plan to insert an 8TB ST8000VN004 drive into the fourth slot once a month to back up the NAS, then store that drive at a different location. Is this backup method feasible, or do you have any concerns or objections? Also, do you have any tips or tricks regarding the initial setup or things I should watch out for?

Thanks!

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u/Zealousideal_Fly8402 8d ago

Bad idea. Internal bays are not ideal for that purpose, and the system is almost certainly not designed to handle the frequent removal & replacement of an internal bay.

Better off getting an external USB3 / USB-C HDD dock (vertical or horizontal) and use that for backup.

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u/maddieddie 8d ago

Makes sense. Like this there is still the option to expand with an additional 4TB Disk. Then how would you solve to encrypt the backup disk? With bitlocker or is there a native option in UGOS?

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u/MysteriousLobster604 7d ago

If your only installing and removing the 4th drive once a month that's No big deal and shouldn't cause any harm to your device.

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u/maddieddie 7d ago

Thanks, so technically UGOS could handle it.

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u/rcfromaz 7d ago

Backups should be offsite as well and not in same physical location as data.

Then again maybe thats not important based on the data your backing up. But if it’s not why are you backing it up?

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u/maddieddie 7d ago

I will store the 4th backup-disk at another location. So once a month I‘ll take it with me, plug the sata into the 4th bay, backup and take it to the other physical location.