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Why does someone need something like this? I ran a home symbology NAS at one point but it wasn’t worth the trouble. Let others run and maintain those hot, loud,
by tbrock 7y ago
Why does someone need something like this? I ran a home symbology NAS at one point but it wasn’t worth the trouble. Let others run and maintain those hot, loud, power hungry disks.
- anonsivalley652 7y agoThen you already made the mistakes of: - conflating trouble for you with trouble for me, which it clearly isn't - not owning your own data - paying more to store it - paying to access it - ability to keep things that aren't worth storing on paid clouds but aren't all that much when kept on cheap drives Furthermore, there are additional network costs such as AWS network charges AND home ISP data limits. And there are other uses, such as: - backing-up VMs - backing-up computers - caching package and source code repos - backing-up CCTV footage - and whatever else comes along
- zaarn 7y agoSpeed. Streaming files (movies, tv shows, youtube channels, linux ISO's, large file collections) is a lot faster; I can reliably hit 100MB/s on my home connection, my DSL caps out at 20MB/s if I do nothing else.