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dannymccann |
posted on 2nd Jun 14 at 12:19 |
Fair point, thanks for the pointers everyone, this thread has made me feel about 65 trying to understand what's what :lol: | |
Rob_Quads |
posted on 31st May 14 at 19:28 |
+1 if its important you can never have too many copies | |
John |
posted on 31st May 14 at 18:08 |
quote: This is no bad thing for the stuff you actually want to keep. Also, you can choose what to sync. Only sync the stuff you need. | |
oceansoul |
posted on 31st May 14 at 16:32 |
quote: I think your getting slightly confused here. The NAS drive connects to the network (90% of the time) by a LAN cable. This will usually be into the back of your router, or another switch if you have one. Then any device that wants to connect to it, say your laptops or phones, do so over the network. Using WiFi etc. The NAS drive doesnt need to have WiFi for other devices to talk to it. They do so via WiFi to the router then through the LAN cable. I have a buffalo linkstation duo NAS drive that i use to store drive image backups of all my computers HDD. | |
dannymccann |
posted on 31st May 14 at 06:19 |
What you guys are discussing is proper overkill :lol: (for me anyway!) | |
ed |
posted on 30th May 14 at 21:29 |
Well I do also Time Machine onto my NAS and Back blaze everything too! | |
Dom |
posted on 30th May 14 at 15:56 |
quote: Hence why you have backups as you would even if you were storing them remotely :nod: quote: So a backup solution rather than a storage solution considering you're retaining files locally. In my situation i use a raided NAS box as primary storage (as well as a media tank) between devices on the network, meaning i can get away with minimum storage specs on each device; i then use a few 'cloud' services (Hubic and Box) to backup 'important' data (essentially everything other than media) and anything 'seriously important' get dumped to encrypted external drives - covers me for pretty much anything :lol: [Edited on 30-05-2014 by Dom] | |
ed |
posted on 30th May 14 at 14:55 |
I use Google Drive for all my files now - my internet connection is crap. As I said in my previous post, it stores everything locally and syncs your files with Google's servers. Ideal :) | |
Kyle T |
posted on 30th May 14 at 14:48 |
I guess it depends what we mean by cack internet. If it's just slow speed, I really don't see it being an issue - particularly as he said "It won't be used for movies or streaming as such, just a simple dumping ground for pictures, documents, my wife's business invoices etc" | |
Dom |
posted on 30th May 14 at 14:32 |
quote: But it sounds like Danny wants highly-accessible central storage whereby he's shifting data off individual systems and making it accessible to a range of devices on the network rather than a backup solution or a typical 'cloud' (awful term) storage solution where data is stored remotely as well as being duplicated across multiple devices, ie - Dropbox and the likes. quote: In a one-way backup situation, however using it as storage as you would with network storage makes you 100% reliant on your internet connection; so a cack internet connection will make it pretty woeful. Either way, Danny's got two options he can opt for. [Edited on 30-05-2014 by Dom] | |
Kyle T |
posted on 30th May 14 at 13:38 |
I can't see poor internet being a valid reason to not go cloud, yeah your initial upload might take decades but you're only going to be making delta changes after that - and it should be manageable. | |
Dom |
posted on 30th May 14 at 13:08 |
quote: Depends on the amount of data Danny is wanting to store; if you've got a pee-poor upload then getting the data into the 'cloud' is going to be arduous at best and similarly it'll play havoc with any download limits you may have. Personally 'Cloud' storage is great for backups but it's cack as a replacement for network storage. Danny - A NAS box will sit on your network (usually wired, so needs to be plugged into your router etc) and provide network storage to all of your devices - obviously majority of consumer NAS boxes will do a lot, lot more like iTune servers, DLNA/media servers etc. Ideally you want a two-bay enclosure so at some point you can implement RAID 1/drive mirroring (helps with hard drive failure) and personally i'd be looking at Synology (arguably the better interface, extremely easy to use) or QNap (usually better hardware) boxes but if the cost is too much (Synology/QNap two-bay enclosure without hard drives is around £150-200) then have a look at D-Link, ZyXEL or Western Digital boxes. As Ed mentions though, a NAS box is open to fire/theft/hardware failure; so you obviously want to backup anything important to either 'cloud' services or to another location, eg - copying to an external drive and leaving it at the parents/friends etc. | |
ed |
posted on 30th May 14 at 12:34 |
You're probably better off using Google Drive or Dropbox for that sort of thing. Data stored on a NAS in your house is still vulnerable to disk failure or theft, where as storage services have much more redundancy. | |
dannymccann |
posted on 30th May 14 at 12:27 |
As the number of computers in our house grows I want to have a central 'hub' to store everything on. We won't be going fibre anytime soon so a cloud option isn't really practical, so I'm thinking a storage solution on our home network could be useful. |