today's topic might not be as sexy as graphics cards or CPUs and upgrading it
might not wet your panty ums but I'm willing to bet that if there was ever
some kind of a problem with it you'd be a lot more upset than if your game
crashed I'm talking of course about storage now this isn't a hard drive
lesson specifically but a little bit of background will help very funny put it
back a modern consumer grade hard drive spins it anywhere from about 5,400 to
7200 revolutions per minute it's read and right head hovers mere nanometers
above a phenomenally sophisticated magnetic platter that generates just
about hurricane forc winds as it spins around inside your PC it's basically
aing Miracle so with the mindblowing
complexity of something you can literally buy for about 50 bucks in mind
the non-m miracle here is that sometimes they break raid can help with that we've
covered raid before and you can check out those videos here and here but in a
nutshell raid uses multiple drives to act as fail
in case one of them dies but the issue is that each raid array requires
multiple drives and while that may work fine in a desktop PC many homes have
more than one desktop PC so setting up raids in each of them would be
prohibitively expensive and it doesn't help at all to protect the data of
devices like notebooks most of which can't hold multiple drives that's where
a Nas or network attached storage device comes in these handy dandy Little Boxes
hold anywhere from a single hard drive to a large raid array and act as a safe
Central Storage hub for all of your data and because they're attached via a
network rather than a single PC they are
always available and they can be accessed by multiple people at the same
time they also have their own operating systems that give you the ability to do
great stuff like consolidate what would be duplicated files on multiple PCS in
one place perform nightly image-based backups of your PCS some even support
Linux by the way manage your running water downloads access your data from
anywhere using a browser or even a mobile app easily share files with
others and much much more now hearing that you might say all right some of
that sound kind of cool but if I just wanted to access my data on the go for
example why wouldn't I just use dropbox or something well prepare yourself for
some like next level thinking here because one of the coolest things about
a Naas or as many vendors are branding it personal cloud is that you can scale
your storage capacity on your own terms without paying extra monthly fees there
no data limits other than the ones imposed by your ISP and finally there's
no mega Corporation overseeing your personal stuff it's all being kept on
your own server that actually belongs to you sign me up right well hold on there
turbo while basic functionality can be achieved by just about anyone but my mom
if the goal is truly WorryFree data safety you need to consider the
following using a Nas does not necessarily mean you are doing your due
diligence and backing up your data raid
is just redundancy which only protects against a hard drive failure backup
means two separate copies in ideally
different physical locations and can protect you against viruses accidental
deletion and many other things that a raid simply cannot a Naas can be used
for backup but that means storing all of the data you want to keep safe on each
of the individual computers that you're managing not actually the most elegant
solution and one that doesn't really help you consolidate your data unless
you're very very organized in an Ideal World I'd recommend getting two nases
one onsite and another one doing an off-site replication of your existing
Nas so all of your data is both easy to manage and safe of course it would be
silly of me to suggest that you need to run out and set up the most complicated
thing in the world right off the bat many Nas Solutions allow you to add hard
drives and even additional Nas units so your storage can continue to grow as
your needs evolve feel free to start I'm just advising you to pick something that
can scale so you're able to continue repurposing Hardware rather than
chucking it and replacing it when you need more so that's a Naz it's kind of
like insurance for your data and like any kind of insurance it's going to be
expensive upfront and you may never even end up needing some of the benefits but
man if you ever do you're going to be happy you have it speaking of happy you
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