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I was actually looking for something like this. I have one computer that I want to back up to both local hard drives and to the cloud. A NAS is great, because
by conradev 5y ago
I was actually looking for something like this. I have one computer that I want to back up to both local hard drives and to the cloud.
A NAS is great, because you can back up to it and have the backup stored on local hard drives, but it also has a CPU and it can be responsible for uploading the data to the cloud. This is better to do from a dedicated device, especially if you are uploading large amounts of data with limited bandwidth, which I am.
The constraint is that locally backing up to a NAS is slow, even though it is sitting next to my computer. Instead of buying into 10GbE networking, it’d be nice to just use a Thunderbolt cable.
- wil421 5y agoRunning FreeNAS on a 1GbE network and I wouldn’t call it slow at all. The initial back is much much faster than my 1TB personal media library I sometimes backup to OneDrive. I think I have 3TB of video from Usenet that is downloaded onto a windows box, uses a 10 year old intel as an unpack scratch pad, and then is stored on the NAS box. Sure the initial library transfer is slow but if you can use a wire it’s not that slow. Certainly not Comcast 25Mb upload slow. Agree about 10Gb devices being expensive especially if you’re invested in the UniFi ecosystem. I’m tempted to do a direct 10Gb SFP+ connection using used intel or Mellanox 10Gb NICs but I haven’t pulled the trigger. 10Gb Thunderbolt NICs are too expensive and give off questionable amounts of heat. SFP+ is the way to go right now and gives you options. Fiber, DAC (copper), or Ethernet.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y agoI have a freenas too. Uploading to it gives me 100 mb write speed, which is definitely enough for most of my needs.
- wil421 5y agoYea I was debating on using SAS drives instead of SATA but cost was too much. Bought WD Red drives instead. Hopefully I won’t have to resilver.
- lizknope 5y agoI got 2 used SFP+ cards and a DAC cable for $60 total on eBay. 10G between my file server and primary desktop is great. 1G for everything is fine.