I'm contemplating whether to purchase a simple #NAS...

I'm contemplating whether to purchase a simple #NAS for home. Mostly for photo storage and backups.

I can get my hands on either #WD #MyCloud Home or WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra with quite a big discount. Does anyone have experience with those and could recommend (or advise against) any of those two?

I like how slim and cheap the Home is, but I don't like it having only one hard drive with no RAID possible. But the Ultra is twice the price 🙈

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Like 15 Jan 2023 at 20:27 | Open on fosstodon.org

3 comments

Ryan Miller

@kytta twice the price for twice the storage (raid) seems reasonable. True backup should ideally follow the 3 2 1 rule - There should be 3 copies of data on 2 different media with 1 copy being off-site. Home NAS is convenient for device sharing and immediate access, but I generally recommend a service like Backblaze for backup.

15 Jan 2023 at 21:26 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place

Nikita

@ryanmiller it would be actually half the storage. Both models are 4 TB, but the Home has a single 4 GB drive, whereas Ultra has 2x2TB. I'd make that a RAID 1 array for the sake of data integrity

15 Jan 2023 at 23:41 | Open on fosstodon.org

Ryan Miller

@kytta oh now I see! Thanks for explaining. I think it's still better to let the off-site service do the redundancy.

17 Jan 2023 at 21:08 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place