Posted by EditorDavid from the little-NAS dept.
“I’ve been somewhat okay about backing up our home data,” writes long-time Slashdot reader 93 Escort Wagon.
But they could use some good advice: We’ve got a couple separate disks available as local backup storage, and my own data also gets occasionally copied to encrypted storage at BackBlaze. My daughter has her own “cloud” backups, which seem to be a manual push every once in a while of random files/folders she thinks are important. Including our media library, between my stuff, my daughter’s, and my wife’s… we’re probably talking in the neighborhood of 10 TB for everything at present. The whole setup is obviously cobbled together, and the process is very manual. Plus it’s annoying since I’m handling Mac, Linux, and Windows backups completely differently (and sub-optimally). Also, unsurprisingly, the amount of data we possess does seem to be increasing with time.
I’ve been considering biting the bullet and buying an NAS [network-attached storage device], and redesigning the entire process — both local and remote. I’m familiar with Synology and DSM from work, and the DS1522+ looks appealing. I’ve also come across a lot of recommendations for QNAP’s devices, though. I’m comfortable tackling this on my own, but I’d like to throw this out to the Slashdot community.
What NAS do you like for home use. And what disks did you put in it? What have your experiences been?
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo asks “Have you considered just building one?” while suggesting the cheapest option is low-powered Chinese motherboards with soldered-in CPUs. And in the comments on the original submission, other Slashdot readers shared their examples:
- destined2fail1990 used an AMD Threadripper to build their own NAS with 10Gbps network connectivity.
- DesertNomad is using “an ancient D-Link” to connect two Synology DS220 DiskStations
- Darth Technoid attached six Seagate drives to two Macbooks. “Basically, I found a way to make my older Mac useful by simply leaving it on all the time, with the external drives attached.”
But what’s your suggestion? Share your own thoughts and experiences. What NAS do you like for home use? What disks would you put in it?
And what have your experiences been?
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