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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Is a NAS worth it? (alien.top)

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Hey!
I am a music producer and I run all my session off external SanDisk hard drives.
I'd love a single place I could plug in the drives that could back them up on mirrored drives. Is a NAS the best option for this? I don't really care about the cloud or internet connectivity, just a safe solution incase my drives fail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!! :)

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[–] UncleBadTouch 1 points 1 year ago

NAS is a good choice imo. use raid 1 to mirror the drives, this way if one shits the bed, the information still lives. I have an old dual core running my NAS with 4 drives, one for the OS and 3 in raid 1 to make sure i dont lose anything. I've had drives fail before, and its nice to know its all still there.