Subj : Re: NAS vs. BIG OL PC TOWER
To   : All
From : Bucko
Date : Sun Jan 10 2021 18:59:02

For the past 17 years, I have used either a Home Server or now a NAS, I
started out in 2003 with Windows Home Server, storing my movies and music
(currently 3 TB of both) in addition to it performing backups of all of my
computers in the house nightly. In 2015 I moved up to Server 2012 then 2016,
this was all done with a old tower which had 6 SATA ports with 4 2TB HD's and
a 500Gig SSD. Back in August I moved to a setup called Xpenology which is
basically Synology OS on a regular PC. It worked great! Recently I upgraded
to a real Synology NAS, it now runs my website, some of my VM's, it runs a
VPN to get into my home network from work. It runs my Plex Server in addition
to my ITunes Server, plus it also does backups of all my computers Linux and
Windows machines. Was it worth it? Yup, to me backups are important, if I
were to lose even 1 video of my kids birthdays from years ago, I would be
beside myself. There is no backup for video tapes that go bad, nor is there
backup of videos that aren't backed up to a seperate storage. My PC's
(Currently 6 plus 2 of my sons PC's that are remote) backup every night to
the NAS, my NAS backs up every other day to external HD's which I swap out
night of backup. Why? Again priceless videos, plus 3+TB of music and other
videos are really hard to replace.  Welp that's my spiel..

Al

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