I have been wanting to set up a NAS for a while, and (possibly in a moment of madness) picked up a 4 bay Synology DS418play and two Ironwolf HDDs (6TB) in the Labour Weekend sales. It is for home use and I envision using it to backup the PCs in the house and store media (photos, video, music and recorded tv) for playback. With the exception of the recorded tv all of the other media will still be resident on another storage device or in cloud storage. After looking at the instructions (rookie move I know) I am looking at setting the NAS up in Synology's Hybrid RAID configuration. From what I understand that will give me 6TB of storage with one disk redundancy. Can I specify what is mirrored to both drives, or will everything be? The reason being, I don't really care if the TV programs are lost by a single disk failure, but everything else is more important. The tv currently takes up about 4TB on my HTPC. In addition there seem to be a huge number of additional utilities that can be installed on the NAS for management, security, backup, etc. What of these do people suggest as good to install. I would like to backup our mobile devices as well (mainly Android). Is that possible?
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