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today's topic might not be as sexy as graphics cards or CPUs and upgrading it

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might not wet your panty ums but I'm willing to bet that if there was ever

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some kind of a problem with it you'd be a lot more upset than if your game

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crashed I'm talking of course about storage now this isn't a hard drive

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lesson specifically but a little bit of background will help very funny put it

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back a modern consumer grade hard drive spins it anywhere from about 5,400 to

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7200 revolutions per minute it's read and right head hovers mere nanometers

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above a phenomenally sophisticated magnetic platter that generates just

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about hurricane forc winds as it spins around inside your PC it's basically

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aing Miracle so with the mindblowing

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complexity of something you can literally buy for about 50 bucks in mind

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the non-m miracle here is that sometimes they break raid can help with that we've

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covered raid before and you can check out those videos here and here but in a

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nutshell raid uses multiple drives to act as fail

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in case one of them dies but the issue is that each raid array requires

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multiple drives and while that may work fine in a desktop PC many homes have

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more than one desktop PC so setting up raids in each of them would be

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prohibitively expensive and it doesn't help at all to protect the data of

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devices like notebooks most of which can't hold multiple drives that's where

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a Nas or network attached storage device comes in these handy dandy Little Boxes

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hold anywhere from a single hard drive to a large raid array and act as a safe

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Central Storage hub for all of your data and because they're attached via a

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network rather than a single PC they are

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always available and they can be accessed by multiple people at the same

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time they also have their own operating systems that give you the ability to do

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great stuff like consolidate what would be duplicated files on multiple PCS in

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one place perform nightly image-based backups of your PCS some even support

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Linux by the way manage your running water downloads access your data from

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anywhere using a browser or even a mobile app easily share files with

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others and much much more now hearing that you might say all right some of

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that sound kind of cool but if I just wanted to access my data on the go for

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example why wouldn't I just use dropbox or something well prepare yourself for

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some like next level thinking here because one of the coolest things about

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a Naas or as many vendors are branding it personal cloud is that you can scale

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your storage capacity on your own terms without paying extra monthly fees there

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no data limits other than the ones imposed by your ISP and finally there's

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no mega Corporation overseeing your personal stuff it's all being kept on

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your own server that actually belongs to you sign me up right well hold on there

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turbo while basic functionality can be achieved by just about anyone but my mom

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if the goal is truly WorryFree data safety you need to consider the

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following using a Nas does not necessarily mean you are doing your due

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diligence and backing up your data raid

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is just redundancy which only protects against a hard drive failure backup

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means two separate copies in ideally

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different physical locations and can protect you against viruses accidental

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deletion and many other things that a raid simply cannot a Naas can be used

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for backup but that means storing all of the data you want to keep safe on each

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of the individual computers that you're managing not actually the most elegant

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solution and one that doesn't really help you consolidate your data unless

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you're very very organized in an Ideal World I'd recommend getting two nases

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one onsite and another one doing an off-site replication of your existing

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Nas so all of your data is both easy to manage and safe of course it would be

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silly of me to suggest that you need to run out and set up the most complicated

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thing in the world right off the bat many Nas Solutions allow you to add hard

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drives and even additional Nas units so your storage can continue to grow as

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your needs evolve feel free to start I'm just advising you to pick something that

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can scale so you're able to continue repurposing Hardware rather than

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chucking it and replacing it when you need more so that's a Naz it's kind of

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like insurance for your data and like any kind of insurance it's going to be

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expensive upfront and you may never even end up needing some of the benefits but

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man if you ever do you're going to be happy you have it speaking of happy you

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the help of amazing companies like the ones I just mentioned before that we can

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