Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

[Ira Abramov]

Quoting Steve G., from the post of Fri, 04 Oct:
> 
> So I am thinking, maybe I should get an external network drive, or raid, or
> NAS, and use it to consolidate my drive and keep all my files in one place
> from now onward.

I have yet to see a cheap hardware off-the-shelf NAS that can beat a PC
in performance or flexibility. I would get three WD Red disks and build
a Linux machine around them, doesn't have to be too powerful. Don't
stick old drives in there, you want reliability. use RAID5 in software,
dm-crypt if you want some privacy, Samba, NFS and OwnClouׁ• like people
already suggested, and a very logical directory tree so you can find
everything easily.

Also - backup backup baskup. there are cheap cloud services where you
can have unlimited storagef for $20-$#0 a year, the better ones support
rsync. don't be too cheap, you want your data alive. Especially unique
stuff like family photos that can't be recovered from a torrent site...


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