External HD vs. Dropbox

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  • prophetone0

    Never stored in cloud - other than temporary, shareable projects - as simply too much data, can't be trusted imo. I've recently been looking at one of these nas raid units as I have a stack of old drives that I'm beginning to get worried about. Might be time to combine and have redundancy on a fresh system.

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    • They ain't cheapprophetone
    • If you've got an always-on desktop, the non-network versions are pretty affordable used. Grab some 4TB drives for $50-100 and you're good to goakiersky
    • These NAS's are just slow, proprietary computers. Better to get a used Dell Optiplex or something and stick your drives in it.monNom
    • Be cautious of raid-cards as well. If they die, you can lose all your parity info. Software raid mirrored pairs in a generic file server would be my pick.monNom
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