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In response to "So, i'm looking at a dual-drive NAS system (my WD MyCloud is a single drive and aging). Would this be a reasonable option?" by Will Hunting

May I ask what you need a NAS for? I retired my NAS in favor of just slapping a big hard drive into my desktop PC

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Jun 1 '21, 13:23

Of course, not everyone has those these days but with cloud storage and all, I'm seeing less and less use for it especially since you can get a LOT of storage for $400 (40 months worth in some cases)

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We have several different computers to feed into it and I like the idea of redundancy. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 14:22 2
- With RAID it's also easy, in theory, to pull a drive and put it in a safe place and then put in a blank drive to be filled up with the existing data. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 14:44 1
  - Right...this would be Raid-1 as a standard -- We have too much stuff I don't want to risk losing on aging storage devices. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 14:48
I'm running a minecraft server in Docker on mine, as well as storing all my "raw" video files for editing, which don't fit on my laptop - Beryllium Jun 1, 13:38

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May I ask what you need a NAS for? I retired my NAS in favor of just slapping a big hard drive into my desktop PC

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