Comment on NAS decision paralysis
victorz@lemmy.world 2 days agoAlright, cool, thanks for the heads-up regarding wiping with Synology!
Yeah, I mean, my special case is basically only that I have a lot of data and I don’t really have anywhere to store it temporarily before installing it in a NAS. 😅 So that’s why I want to just plop them in there… But I don’t know what the chest way forward would be to turn my drives into network drives. Just a small drive bay maybe.
sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I don’t know if there is a (of the shelf) DAS out there that supports using drives with existing data on them and also some additional drives with RAID in the same enclosure.
In case you don’t have some place to store the data temporarily you can just use it as it is and save SE money for a NAS.
Because I am asking myself: if you don’t have a place to store the data temporarily, where is your backup? Sounds like you don’t have one. In this case you can save for the NAS AMD use the external drive as a backup drive attached to the NAS. Win-Win maybe?
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t need support for RAID at all to begin with I think. I just need to make my existing drives network-accessible. 😁
I do not have backups at all. This is just… warez. Nothing too important to backup, really. It would just be annoying to download again.
sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
OK, then maybe a DAS where your can put your drives in and also add some additional ones. Attach it to one of your Servers and Expose them via smb/NFS.
So something like @agile_squirrel@lemmy.ml and @Ugurcan@lemmy.world mentioned.