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Originally Posted by Addos
hi mate, great question i posed to myself recently. ive just gotten into the nas world with an amazon cheapy the synology ds220j (two bay). what i can say having gone through the experience is:
* bit of a learning curve with nas'. learning raid types, having to learn more about home networking, and the synology os.
* raid is great but having to spend twice the money for the base amount of storage is quite the price to pay for an extra redundancy layer. 2 8tb drives ontop of the price of the nas box and the exercise to protect my astro data cost nearly a grand.
* on the upside, very easy backup process once setup. going through the pain to fix bottlenecks in the local network and always on nas boxes mean i dont have to batch files from the mini pc on the rig to a usb stick to transfer to my processing pc. setup robocopy on nina to the nas network folder and when i wake up in the morning the files are already on the home network and can pull them across to the processing pc.
on the counterside if i'd gone for the external hdd option wouldve been far, far simpler, cheaper but with slightly less redundancy and utility. dealers choice!
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I can definitely appreciate the Initial outlay in money. The solution i went with was not a cheap exercise. I went with a RAID5 solution, which stripes the data across 3 drives, with a layer of redundancy. Meaning I can tolerate 1 drive failing and still retain all my data. I also went with NAS rated spinning platters, so I'm hoping my Data will be safe for a good long while. I do plan on getting an offsite backup happening, either through some paid cloud service, or through manually backing up to a large external drive and moving it offsite.
I've yet to setup robocopy in Nina, but i plan to. i think i'll end up putting it onto an External SSD and manually copying it across to my HDD so i can sort and cull before spitting it across to the NAS. This'll also allow me to travel with the setup without needing to alter any scripting or sequences.