Oh… That sounds risky!

But, with no experience doing it, I may be missing something.

Have you had no issues with this approach?

That is an interesting proposition. And it is a bit cheaper then buying a second NAS while still possibly catching many issues.

Have you done this, out of curiosity?

Good point. I need to consider doing this to make troubleshooting easier.

Also curious if someone had any RAID related issues. Which you will not catch with a 1 or 2 disk NAS since you cannot have RAID 5 there.

I was not clear on why I wanted a production environment. The reason is that I want enough stability in it to be used by family and friends. Preferably without breakages. Immediate usages will be as shared storage, e-book management, game centre to run Minecraft for my kind who lives far away from me., etc. Also, the list of services I will make available in production will vary throughout time.

This is why I mentioned a NAS in production. So that the hardware storage just works. But, at the same time, I really do not have the budget to buy two similar NAS and test things in Sandbox.

I really get your point about having two different envs if I want to have perfect stability. But I was trying to figure out if I could make the Sandbox env a little bit less costly but go 80% of the way in terms of catching issues before breaking Production.

I may just buy a lower model of the same brand but lets see if other people suggest another approach.