Lol google drive has ZERO redundancy: try AWS S3: data is replicated to THREE data centres …Also the disks you use in your NAS: scam, they are not new, and any RAID controller will add the risk of bit rot … So cloud should be your first option !
Data on your computer, need search warrant for each computer. Data on Cloud, search warrant for the whole server farm and get everyone who uses it. It’s already happened before.
privacy is a big reason i only keep a few small things in the cloud… only stuff i wanna acess on any device at the same time.. the rest i keep locally.. like on my phone or old hard drives i find in old tv boxes and computers… sure not as good as a NAS but muuuuch cheaper.. loosing my phone would be horrible for me considering i have over 700k pics and videos and a few hundredd text documents on it.. buuut i do not trust the cloud. nor do i want anything to do with subscription based services like cloud storage is.. i muuuch more prefer one time payments as they do not cripple my economy over time
Cloud services scare me because of potential leaks or the service going down. A home server scares me because of damage or failure of the drives… I’ll create an elaborate data storage system using 1cm thick titanium punch cards… I’ll need a bigger room.
my old pc is nas/minecraft server
i can transfer files and download files like nas server
but i think its just smb or nfs file share, the old pc is just running debian with casaos, and just added smb or nfs file share which allows specefic ip address to do stuff
I have two NAS units, one at home and one at my office. No cloud for me. I built my own (96TB) units which would cost me a small fortune in no time flat.
Google deleted 16 gigs of my life saved in my Google drive last month. Out of the blue. And they’ve simply told me there’s nothing I can do since I didn’t "back my files up"
Get 2 Nas, one as storage and one as a redundancy.
I like how the con of using a private cloud is that your house can catch on fire well shit never thought of that. The con for paying a cloud service you can get shot and your data is never accessible again
A normal individual like me doesn’t require 20TB of google cloud storage. I have an old PC which has a 1TB hard drive, which has about 250 GB of cinema that i had accumulated from my torrenting era. For someone like me does it make sense to turn this old PC into a NAS or a personal cloud backup or home server. what are the advantages that we are looking at. i have no idea and would love it if someone could tell me ways in which this NAS/home server would actually make sense then to just sell away my good ‘ol potato PC
Have both and keep them both maintained as much as possible. If google nukes your account, you can have your NAS. If your house burns down, you can get your stuff off the cloud onto a new NAS. And while both could happen, it’s less likely.
My External Portable Hard Drive is used for backing up my projects, and all my other files. In addition, I also use my flash drives for Windows 11 Installation, Linux Mint Installation, and (If I get someone who is paranoid) I have Qube OS Bootable Flash Drive. Given, most of my flash drives are bootable, aside from one containing my backups, compressed into a 7-Zip archive, with settings as followed:
– 24 Threads (Using that hyperthreads my CPU)
– Ultra Compression (Level 9)
– LZMA2
– 192 Dictionary Size (I have 32GB RAM, so I can cater for that)
– Encrypted with Rijndael-256 (Also known as AES-256)
Privacy is in any case a concern for me, which is why I use encryption, while backing them up.
I use both. I backup everything on 10TB NAS monthly, but also backup important files, documents, media on cloud 100GB plan (Some of which is encrypted). I also backup the NAS on a 12TB external HDD every 3 months. Just incase the NAS dies.
I use truenas and I have a second one in a remote location. And I use it to back my most important pool and I have them a smaller pool that I setup for there phone storage backup. So they just pay power and internet and I get a free remote location.
If I wanted to upload a 100gb game to save it "on the cloud" it would take me 10 days to download it and if the upload doesn’t fail, which it always does, it would probably take a whole year to upload.
I think I’m using my SSDs.
3-2-1 rule Buddy
3 different backups
2 different storage mediums
1 off site backup.
My personal setup is a spare drive, a NAS, and Proton Drive. Spare drive is more of a monthly snapshot, NAS is always synced, and Proton Drive is also always synced. Spare drive is a manual backup, just so I know it’s actually backed up and am not relying on automation.
Cloud services can and do lose data. It doesn’t matter how redundant they can be on their own end, accidental and purposeful loss of data does absolutely happen
A 2tb ‘nas’ pluged into the usbC port on my router.
As a pc user starting from the late 90’s, I find the idea of some phoney ‘cloud’ annoying & out of the question.
Pretty much the only thing cloud storage is better at is reliability. The problem is that it also comes with privacy issues and random drive deletions that Google won’t help with. At some point, if your NAS is strong enough, the biggest factor becomes those random issues, and local storage wins by a landslide.
If you use any ‘raid’ you can have ‘bit rot’ without even knowing it, meaning, your systems sees a ‘write’ but any error that is written is no caught, meaning you might be writing errors, or data that can’t be retrieved, unless you have some really clever system like NetApp. The cloud has build in redundancies eg AWS S3 standard has 3 copies by default, meaning if two data centres become unavailable, your data would still be available … Best is to have both and encrypt backups. A quick weekly manual backup on an encrypted disk, kept outside of the office is a good way to cover the ‘fire and flooding’ risk of your building.
Lol google drive has ZERO redundancy: try AWS S3: data is replicated to THREE data centres …Also the disks you use in your NAS: scam, they are not new, and any RAID controller will add the risk of bit rot … So cloud should be your first option !
Cloud isn’t as secure as they advertise
Lifetime cloud plans:
Yeah your house could burn down not a big deal…
What sort of backup strategy do you use?
Onedrive Business gives you unlimited Data for 5$ a month lmao. Also can mount it via rclone as a normal drive like smb on linux and windows
Don’t get a synology. Do something like a dell Optiplex or something else.
Dude Google drive literally lost tons of data, it happened to me
Love ur vids🚡
What if there is war and our internet is gone for months?
Well, the cloud is the safer the data will be there regardless of where you go
Just use free plan for everything
Nas is cooked
Data on your computer, need search warrant for each computer. Data on Cloud, search warrant for the whole server farm and get everyone who uses it. It’s already happened before.
privacy is a big reason i only keep a few small things in the cloud… only stuff i wanna acess on any device at the same time.. the rest i keep locally.. like on my phone or old hard drives i find in old tv boxes and computers… sure not as good as a NAS but muuuuch cheaper.. loosing my phone would be horrible for me considering i have over 700k pics and videos and a few hundredd text documents on it.. buuut i do not trust the cloud. nor do i want anything to do with subscription based services like cloud storage is.. i muuuch more prefer one time payments as they do not cripple my economy over time
Cloud services scare me because of potential leaks or the service going down. A home server scares me because of damage or failure of the drives… I’ll create an elaborate data storage system using 1cm thick titanium punch cards… I’ll need a bigger room.
Why not use a DAS instead of a NAS.
Just buy an OEM office PC and slap in a HDD like 5TB (enough for most people) install
an server OS on that thing like true NAS
my old pc is nas/minecraft server
i can transfer files and download files like nas server
but i think its just smb or nfs file share, the old pc is just running debian with casaos, and just added smb or nfs file share which allows specefic ip address to do stuff
If you have a NAS, Please use some type of RAID. It splits or duplicates data between drives so if one breaks you still have the data in the other.
WHY WOULD YOU EVER NEED A BACKUP???
I have two NAS units, one at home and one at my office. No cloud for me. I built my own (96TB) units which would cost me a small fortune in no time flat.
NAS are problematic and dead slow. Local RAID much faster.
Google deleted 16 gigs of my life saved in my Google drive last month. Out of the blue. And they’ve simply told me there’s nothing I can do since I didn’t "back my files up"
Get 2 Nas, one as storage and one as a redundancy.
As an adept of "MOHMOR" (My Own Hartdware, My Own Rules), clouds solutions are a no go !
If you don’t have backups you don’t own your files. You’re leasing them from fate.
I like how the con of using a private cloud is that your house can catch on fire well shit never thought of that. The con for paying a cloud service you can get shot and your data is never accessible again
A normal individual like me doesn’t require 20TB of google cloud storage. I have an old PC which has a 1TB hard drive, which has about 250 GB of cinema that i had accumulated from my torrenting era. For someone like me does it make sense to turn this old PC into a NAS or a personal cloud backup or home server. what are the advantages that we are looking at. i have no idea and would love it if someone could tell me ways in which this NAS/home server would actually make sense then to just sell away my good ‘ol potato PC
Have both and keep them both maintained as much as possible. If google nukes your account, you can have your NAS. If your house burns down, you can get your stuff off the cloud onto a new NAS. And while both could happen, it’s less likely.
If you have multiple (windows) pc’s you can configure onedrive and sync documents. If you also can set that up with a nas, thats cool
My External Portable Hard Drive is used for backing up my projects, and all my other files. In addition, I also use my flash drives for Windows 11 Installation, Linux Mint Installation, and (If I get someone who is paranoid) I have Qube OS Bootable Flash Drive. Given, most of my flash drives are bootable, aside from one containing my backups, compressed into a 7-Zip archive, with settings as followed:
– 24 Threads (Using that hyperthreads my CPU)
– Ultra Compression (Level 9)
– LZMA2
– 192 Dictionary Size (I have 32GB RAM, so I can cater for that)
– Encrypted with Rijndael-256 (Also known as AES-256)
Privacy is in any case a concern for me, which is why I use encryption, while backing them up.
Always ENCRYPT (sensitive data) BEFORE storing in the cloud!!
I use both. I backup everything on 10TB NAS monthly, but also backup important files, documents, media on cloud 100GB plan (Some of which is encrypted). I also backup the NAS on a 12TB external HDD every 3 months. Just incase the NAS dies.
I use truenas and I have a second one in a remote location. And I use it to back my most important pool and I have them a smaller pool that I setup for there phone storage backup. So they just pay power and internet and I get a free remote location.
Is there a problem using OneDrive or is Microsoft also full of nonsense there?
If I wanted to upload a 100gb game to save it "on the cloud" it would take me 10 days to download it and if the upload doesn’t fail, which it always does, it would probably take a whole year to upload.
I think I’m using my SSDs.
Best option is a local NAS with the most important files backed up to a cloud service as an encrypted blob of data.
If your house burns down you just download and decrypt your blob and you’re good to go.
The cloud is just somebody else’s computer. Just store data locally
With a physical nas, you OWN your data
3-2-1 rule Buddy
3 different backups
2 different storage mediums
1 off site backup.
My personal setup is a spare drive, a NAS, and Proton Drive. Spare drive is more of a monthly snapshot, NAS is always synced, and Proton Drive is also always synced. Spare drive is a manual backup, just so I know it’s actually backed up and am not relying on automation.
And you can use backblaze personla for 9$ a month to back up your nas as well
Cloud services can and do lose data. It doesn’t matter how redundant they can be on their own end, accidental and purposeful loss of data does absolutely happen
A 2tb ‘nas’ pluged into the usbC port on my router.
As a pc user starting from the late 90’s, I find the idea of some phoney ‘cloud’ annoying & out of the question.
I just want a place to store my massive pron collection tbh and I don’t trust google or Microsoft with it
Now do Nasa VS cloud storage
Can NAS software not be hacked so someone could get access to your files?
Using USB storage or an SSD connected to your router could also be backup/mini NAS
Pretty much the only thing cloud storage is better at is reliability. The problem is that it also comes with privacy issues and random drive deletions that Google won’t help with. At some point, if your NAS is strong enough, the biggest factor becomes those random issues, and local storage wins by a landslide.
READ the UELA of the cloud your going to use. They have a lot of conditions you should be aware of. A NAS is best.
Fun fact:
1tb nas: 80$
1pb nas: 4500$
If you use any ‘raid’ you can have ‘bit rot’ without even knowing it, meaning, your systems sees a ‘write’ but any error that is written is no caught, meaning you might be writing errors, or data that can’t be retrieved, unless you have some really clever system like NetApp. The cloud has build in redundancies eg AWS S3 standard has 3 copies by default, meaning if two data centres become unavailable, your data would still be available … Best is to have both and encrypt backups. A quick weekly manual backup on an encrypted disk, kept outside of the office is a good way to cover the ‘fire and flooding’ risk of your building.