What is a NAS as Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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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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continue making this content so just bear that in mind next time you hear us
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talking about them hey thanks for watching guys like the video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it
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