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Frustrating with unintuitive defaults that will confuse you and waste your time
If you're expecting this device to be simple and intuitive, you will be disappointed and worse frustrated.
I initially installed 1 HDD and noticed that the files I copied onto it consumed twice the disk space I expected.
I couldn't find a good explanation of SHR (their RAID) that answered the question of what it did on a single disk and assumed it had made redundant copies.
So I added another drive. And found I still had no more disk space. 2Tb was consuming 8 Tb of physical disk space.
Is that what you want?
By default, hidden in options - it created another version of every file I copied which initially doubled the disk space. Then, adding the second disk, it made a redundant copy in case of drive failure. Now the second part was expected (RAID). The first was not.
Apparently this is 'helpful' for some people. It's called 'versioning' - but it's more correctly DiskSpaceWaste(TM).
It's flawed for 2 reasons.
First it should not be on by default,
Second it not make copies of files before they're modified - essentially duplicating the files independent of RAID.
It's comically bad and indefensible.
Sure - offer versioning but don't have it on by default and don't make extra versions until something changes.