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Be lazy like me. $400 will get you 2x16GB drives and a 2-bay Synology NAS. Tell it to mirror the drives to each other and keep history. The defaults are fine. T
by geor9e 3y ago
Be lazy like me. $400 will get you 2x16GB drives and a 2-bay Synology NAS. Tell it to mirror the drives to each other and keep history. The defaults are fine. Then mirror the most important files with it's cloud sync function (GDrive, etc). This is in case your house burns down. I know you dislike "online" but the fact is cloud datacenters have pretty good redundancy. Plug external drives into the USB ports for unimportant and replaceable files. Meditate with idea that you don't actually need to organize anything since the NAS will index it all so you can search. Call it a day.
- RGamma 3y agoThat sounds pretty cheap (unless you really meant 2x16GB ;)). Got a link to the products?
- geor9e 3y agoWhoops TB. It was a while ago, but what I did was set a "deal alert" on slickdeals for "NAS" and "16TB shuckable". I think it's a Synology 218+. I vaguely remember it was about $200+$100+$100. I had to "shuck" the drives (meaning throw away the case). For some reason they're cheaper in an external USB case, and the internet calls them "shuckable" if they secretly contain high end NAS-friendly models. I got 4 and shucked 2 into the NAS bays and plugged 2 into the USB ports (the USB ones are for like movies and easily replaced downloads, so I can access over the network but theres no mirroring - if they die they die)