If you have enough data for a extra hard drive id recommend a nas.
A good 2Bay one is between 100 and 200. Add 2 drives for a raid 1 and your data is protected against drive failure. Now you have a storage place that is accessible from all Devices. Wanna watch a video?Well its there and playable from PC, Phone or your TV.
You know how that goes though, now the ethernet isn’t fast enough to allow that nas experience to be seamless. 2.5gbit… 10gbit? Now you need a new switch maybe a new router too. It just goes downhill from there haha
Funnily enough, network is the only thing i didnt touch. I changed my habbits so that my server does all the work/heavy lifting. I started with a cheap 2bay nas, switched to a 4bay micro server, that i later modified to 5 for an cache ssd. From there i build a am4 machine from scratch and added a ups.
Currengly im waiting gor a good deal on drives as the used space slowly creeps from 22tib to 23tib(100% used)
Synology is a NAS Iʼd recommend. However, after you become more familiar with the command line and if you are building your own Debian machine with a motherboard that supports many hard drives, I would recommend something like this procedure; this applies especially if you are the only one who will be accessing the files and are just wanting a way to combine the storage capacities of multiple hard drives.
If you have enough data for a extra hard drive id recommend a nas.
A good 2Bay one is between 100 and 200. Add 2 drives for a raid 1 and your data is protected against drive failure. Now you have a storage place that is accessible from all Devices. Wanna watch a video?Well its there and playable from PC, Phone or your TV.
You know how that goes though, now the ethernet isn’t fast enough to allow that nas experience to be seamless. 2.5gbit… 10gbit? Now you need a new switch maybe a new router too. It just goes downhill from there haha
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Funnily enough, network is the only thing i didnt touch. I changed my habbits so that my server does all the work/heavy lifting. I started with a cheap 2bay nas, switched to a 4bay micro server, that i later modified to 5 for an cache ssd. From there i build a am4 machine from scratch and added a ups.
Currengly im waiting gor a good deal on drives as the used space slowly creeps from 22tib to 23tib(100% used)
I’m dumb. Any advice on how to get started with something like that? I’d appreciate product recommendations appropriate for a newb
Synology is a NAS Iʼd recommend. However, after you become more familiar with the command line and if you are building your own Debian machine with a motherboard that supports many hard drives, I would recommend something like this procedure; this applies especially if you are the only one who will be accessing the files and are just wanting a way to combine the storage capacities of multiple hard drives.
A NAS is good for movies or TV, but putting games on one is asking for trouble. Local Network Bandwith exists. LAN parties knew this back in the day.