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.
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.
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.
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
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 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
What sort of backup strategy do you use?
Don't get a synology. Do something like a dell Optiplex or something else.
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
Now do Nasa VS cloud storage
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.
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What if there is war and our internet is gone for months?
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.
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 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.
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.
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
I just want a place to store my massive pron collection tbh and I don't trust google or Microsoft with it
Why not use a DAS instead of a NAS.
Well, the cloud is the safer the data will be there regardless of where you go
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
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 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
Always ENCRYPT (sensitive data) BEFORE storing in the cloud!!
Can NAS software not be hacked so someone could get access to your files?