Subj : RE: NAS vs. BIG OL PC TOWER
To   : Weishaupt
From : NuSkooler
Date : Sun Jan 10 2021 16:45:21


Twas Saturday, January 9th when Weishaupt said...
 We> I guess my larger question  is, does a NAS give you features that a 
 We> well-built PC doesn't?

A modern NAS is going to give you a few things. At a basic level with a
standard setup (FreeNAS etc.) you're going to have RAIDed data. This is great
if you're *reading* the data a lot and especially if it's not just you
(multi-user).

Another thing a modern NAS generally comes with is user access/rights, sharing
via multiple protocols, video streaming, so on.


On Saturday, January 9th Weishaupt muttered...
 We> One of the things that is also becoming clear is the issue of redundancy 
 We> and the cost thereof -- meaning, the more drives you have, the more space 
 We> you need for backups.

I've been running unRAID for many years and HIGHLY recommend it. I use it for
backup and video streaming (2-3 users at the very most generally). unRAID lets
you just "any old disks" which is great for me: I throw in old drives from
other machines/etc. Also, the way unRAID works with parity means I only need a
single parity only drive, and the rest are data. If one of the drives dies I
don't lose data. If the partiy AND one of the other data drives dies at the
*same time* the most I would lose is the data on the particular drive; I can
also set policies to say where the data lands if I'm really worried about a
paritculer set of data (via share).

I've had drives die more than once from just being plain old -- and have never
lost data. Just plop in a replacement and rebuild from parity.





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