Subj : NAS vs. BIG OL PC TOWER
To   : All
From : Weishaupt
Date : Sat Jan 09 2021 18:27:01

Hi folks.

I am reaching a point where I think I'm a data hoarder.  I tried to avoid this
as, from a psychological perspective, I tend to have a poor memory of anything
I don't use frequently.  Most of the coding I do, I have to keep a text
file/cheat sheet of common methods to do things like open files, because months
 will pass between projects and I just forget everything.  It has always been
like this.

I have attempted to apply this to my data collection: what are the chances I
will watch any of the horrible low budget movies I have collected more than
once?  Yet, pathologically, neutorically, I cannot bring myself to delete files
 the same way my brain has garbage collection.

Growing a bit too big for the midtower Debian box I use as my file server I
started looking into options.  Synology NASes are often recommended but I am
wondering, for the money, what they buy me that a PC in a full tower case and
appropriate motherboardboard wouldn't.  I have no need for whatever OS runs on
those NASes; I can set things up with Debian again.  I guess my larger question
 is, does a NAS give you features that a well-built PC doesn't?

One of the things that is also becoming clear is the issue of redundancy and
the cost thereof -- meaning, the more drives you have, the more space you need
for backups.  I am always torn between whether I should set up RAID or whether
it makes more sense to have a bunch of external drives, or, as is currently the
 case, a second old PC with a bunch of drives I just rsync everything to.

Recommendations would be appreciated.

 
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