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First up… backups…

You’ve got all your data on a single 8TB external drive?

This. RAID IS NOT A BACKUP !!! Sorry for shouting, but it’s that important. It’s a main storage tolerant of disk failure, you still need backups or you’re one bad ‘rm -rf’ away from losing data.

First get that second 8Tb, or better yet a 16+Tb (see serverpartdeals.com or your local equivalent for good prices on manufacturer recertified drives) so you have room to grow. Now copy that 8Tb onto it and disconnect it from your computer. Congratulations, you have a cold backup and are pretty well protected from data loss, much better than a RAID.

You can now think about a NAS with confidence, but preferably before that get another drive copy your data again and take it to a friend / relative / safety deposit box (even bury it in the back yard in something waterproof). Now you have a 3-2-1 backup strategy and you’re pretty damn well insulated against data loss.

TLDR: Backup first, NAS later.

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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I disagree with cold backup drives.

In my experience, cold drives fail more often than warm drives. This is why all my data replication is always watm.

All backup solutions should be regulator tested, otherwise you don’t know if you have a backup.

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yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
OK, that’s actually a nice point to clarify, and to be sincere I kinda saw it as a backup. But thinking it more thoroughly, it is the kind of “backup” I am looking for. I worry mainly about the hard drive crapping out on me. Then after that yeah, I would have an external HD with the most important stuff backed up and then something out of the house.

To be perfectly clear, I agree entirely with your comment. What you say is extremely important, but the NAS is the actual aspect I need for the house at the moment :)

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