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> You cannot trust any cloud provider to properly maintain your data, and external storage is becoming cheaper every year. Exactly, and setting up a NAS has ne
by newZWhoDis 4y ago
> You cannot trust any cloud provider to properly maintain your data, and external storage is becoming cheaper every year.
Exactly, and setting up a NAS has never been easier.
- reaperducer 4y agoFor 99% of people, a NAS is overkill. Plug-and-play USB drives get the job done at a fraction of the complexity.
- newZWhoDis 4y agoI love having a NAS that replaces Time Machine, Dropbox, iCloud, Netflix, Spotify, Disney plus, Hulu, runs home automation, has my security system on it, etc etc. People use so many cloud services and having it all private and self-hosted is absolutely amazing. It’s really not that hard to set up either, and there’s little to maintenance outside replacing a failed drive.
- type-r 4y agoI vastly prefer content be cloud based. Ever since Spotify came out, I've never downloaded music illegally again -- it's just so much better and more convenient. Can't imagine going back to what.cd days and having to download and maintain a music collection manually.
- newZWhoDis 4y agoSure, but then Netflix removed stargate on a whim and one of my favorite shows went poof. That started me down the path to owning all my own media. It also didn’t help that iCloud Photos is a privacy nightmare.
- criddell 4y agoPeople here likely know how to do all that safely, but lots of less technically inclined people end up with their data encrypted and have to choose between starting over or paying a ransom. I have a QNAP device so I follow their subreddit and there's a steady stream of people who have lost everything to ransomware because their NAS was visible from the internet. I follow the standard advice from that subreddit - keep it behind a firewall with UPnP turned off and no ports forwarded to the NAS and never enable MyQNAPCloud (or whatever it's called).
- newZWhoDis 4y agoSeems like more of a QNAP problem than anything
- sockaddr 4y agoYup. QNAP software quality (and hardware) is complete garbage. I’ve off and on tried to incorporate them into my “system” and they always let me down. You’re putting everything at risk using one of their boxes.
- fomine3 4y agoNot only: https://nascompares.com/2022/03/01/terramaster-nas-devices-being-attacked-by-deadbolt-ransomware/ https://nascompares.com/2022/03/01/terramaster-nas-devices-b...
- haidev 4y agoMind sharing your setup, I’d love to replicate it. Thanks
- newZWhoDis 4y ago8 bay synology with 60TB usable, multiple docker containers running for tools as part of my setup.
- nobodyandproud 4y agoA toaster box NAS with hotswap drives, RAID, and support for Android and iOS is a reality.
- pronoiac 4y agoOne benefit of a NAS: my data's robust against any single drive dying, which is something that's happened to me, friends, and family.