Subj : Re: ArcaOS 5.0 - the "new" OS/2 Warp. Anyone used?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Mar 15 2023 18:21:26

  Re: Re: ArcaOS 5.0 - the "new" OS/2 Warp. Anyone used?
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Commodore Clifford on Wed Mar 15 2023 06:50 am

 > I have a Synology NAS that I bought used a year ago. I don't know how
 > old it is, save for the fact that the OS is going EOL soon. I could take
 > all my stuff off of the cloud and run everything on it, but I don't want
 > to deal with what to do when the hardware fails.
 > 

What you do is to have the content duplicated in yet another file server. That
s is commonly known as a backup.

I got a bunch of EOLed SOHO NAS units at a huge discount from a local store the
other day. EOLed units kind of suck, but as long as you place them in an
isolated environment you should be fine. If you just firewall them so they
cannot get traffic from the Internet and they cannot initiate their own
connections you should be fine.

I ran some informal numbers recently (in fact they were going to be published
in a Linux Magazine article, but the editorial team decided it was not wise to
name the cloud offerings being compared). Having a pseudo-enterprise NAS of the
sort True NAS users would recommend ends up costing you about the same money
than buying business grade cloud storage past a certain point, with the
advantage that a high-end NAS has your files local. ie. if you need to do
disaster recovery and your backups are in the cloud, you are gonna suffer every
second it takes to restore those 16 TB you have up there.



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