Comment on NAS decision paralysis
yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoSo thoughtful of you, caring for my decision paralysis :D Actually that sounds like a great alternative, might make me choose for something like it and completely delete my paralysis :)
Hmm less drives with more capacity… Wouldn’t that reduce my ability to keep more copies? Unless with less drives you mean 3, instead of 6 and 3 for me us more than I have now xd On the other hand less drives mean less complex NAS, plenty of people have been talking of backup strategies, and I was just simply thinking of having a drive with a clone for important data and another drive for less important (media) data. Then maybe have the most important stuff in a cloud service as an extra safety.
Anyway, many thanks for adding to my paralisys giving a new extra option, it looks promising.
agile_squirrel@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I see some people start out with a NAS and a raid array (e.g., several 8TB drive array). Instead, I’d try to pay a little more upfront for a larger single drive. It lowers power cost, is simpler, and scales better in the future if you need more storage. I personally wouldn’t buy anything smaller than 14 TB.