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I feel this is increasingly becoming the era of the NAS. A lot of the time I go looking for shows or movies it’s no longer offered on the same service if quite

by goles 3y ago

I feel this is increasingly becoming the era of the NAS. A lot of the time I go looking for shows or movies it’s no longer offered on the same service if quite literally at all. Many of my liked YouTube videos are now just [deleted]. Not to mention any data you store in the cloud when engineer(s) experience career altering events.

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crazygringo 3y ago
What is interesting is that we've gone through 3 phases of consumer NAS: 1) Western Digital (MyBook I think was the name?) with built-in HD -- notoriously buggly and unreliable pieces of junk 2) Then just... no NAS as cloud seemed to be the answer 3) Now, Synology NAS enclosures and their custom OS (DSM) exists which is just a dream of ease-of-use If there is a new era of NAS, I'd say it's single-handedly being enabled by Synology, which is really quite remarkable.
- cheeze 3y ago
  I run my own RaidZ3 server at home. It's rock solid. Uses old surplus hardware and a whole bunch of 8TB drives. Synology is cool but too limited in what it can do for a homserver, IMO.
  - crazygringo 3y ago
    I'm talking about for regular users, not the HN crowd who can build their own NAS out of anything. :)
judge2020 3y ago
Most Americans don't have enough data to warrant a dedicated NAS. And even if they do, the cost is a major dealbreaker, $400+ including drives is way more than most would ever consider spending on computer hardware.
- sp332 3y ago
  Hard drive prices stopped going down for a while, but now they are cheap again.
- t-writescode 3y ago
  More than their $1000 phone? Their $500 graphics card? $800 tower? $400 monitor? $500 game console? I suppose it's more than their $300 watch.
  - Gigachad 3y ago
    It's equivalent to 16 years of paying for Google Drive for me. Personally my ideal setup is just using google drive, and then dumping a backup from Google Takeout to a usb ssd every now and then.

by goles 3y ago

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crazygringo 3y ago

What is interesting is that we've gone through 3 phases of consumer NAS: 1) Western Digital (MyBook I think was the name?) with built-in HD -- notoriously buggly and unreliable pieces of junk 2) Then just... no NAS as cloud seemed to be the answer 3) Now, Synology NAS enclosures and their custom OS (DSM) exists which is just a dream of ease-of-use If there is a new era of NAS, I'd say it's single-handedly being enabled by Synology, which is really quite remarkable.

cheeze 3y ago
I run my own RaidZ3 server at home. It's rock solid. Uses old surplus hardware and a whole bunch of 8TB drives. Synology is cool but too limited in what it can do for a homserver, IMO.
- crazygringo 3y ago
  I'm talking about for regular users, not the HN crowd who can build their own NAS out of anything. :)

judge2020 3y ago

Most Americans don't have enough data to warrant a dedicated NAS. And even if they do, the cost is a major dealbreaker, $400+ including drives is way more than most would ever consider spending on computer hardware.

sp332 3y ago
Hard drive prices stopped going down for a while, but now they are cheap again.
t-writescode 3y ago
More than their $1000 phone? Their $500 graphics card? $800 tower? $400 monitor? $500 game console? I suppose it's more than their $300 watch.
- Gigachad 3y ago
  It's equivalent to 16 years of paying for Google Drive for me. Personally my ideal setup is just using google drive, and then dumping a backup from Google Takeout to a usb ssd every now and then.