Hey all,
I've got a custom PC which I've had about 4 years, the boot SSD seems to have gone kaput... I can deal with that, however, that's by far the newest drive in that PC. I've got about 4.5 Tb of other HDDs that I use for backup, one of them is about 8 years old.
Everything I care about is spread across those drives, family photos, music, films, work projects, school prjects etc... It's made me start to worry about the security of all that stuff! I've been thinking about getting a NAS drive for a number of years but the enclosed systems (even the one's excl. HDDs) work out to be hideously expensive - especially as I'd want one drive redundancy. I'm not a mug with computers (basic Linux and coding experience) but I'd never attempt to call myself a sys admin!
I wonder if there's a stand out winning option - either a cost effective complete NAS system, or an easy way to self build a server that has all the functionality of, say, a Synology NAS system.
To make things more complicated, my household runs a mix of Windows, android and Mac devices.
Any help or guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks and best regards,
Pete
I've got a custom PC which I've had about 4 years, the boot SSD seems to have gone kaput... I can deal with that, however, that's by far the newest drive in that PC. I've got about 4.5 Tb of other HDDs that I use for backup, one of them is about 8 years old.
Everything I care about is spread across those drives, family photos, music, films, work projects, school prjects etc... It's made me start to worry about the security of all that stuff! I've been thinking about getting a NAS drive for a number of years but the enclosed systems (even the one's excl. HDDs) work out to be hideously expensive - especially as I'd want one drive redundancy. I'm not a mug with computers (basic Linux and coding experience) but I'd never attempt to call myself a sys admin!
I wonder if there's a stand out winning option - either a cost effective complete NAS system, or an easy way to self build a server that has all the functionality of, say, a Synology NAS system.
To make things more complicated, my household runs a mix of Windows, android and Mac devices.
Any help or guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks and best regards,
Pete
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