Network Access Storage Help

tobuyRnot2buy on 24/08/2023 - 15:30
Last edited 24/08/2023 - 15:57 by 1 other user

Hi All,

my digital content, mostly personal photos and videos are crossing 4TB now. I do not want to use cloud as it seems to a costly for long term. I have hard disks but based on the reviews, they seem to die sooner or later. Now when i looked at NAS it has so many varieties and I am confused.

My requirement is to store and retrieve photos and video from anywhere.

Also is there an option to send my data to NAS from anywhere and also retrieve from anywhere or do we need to connect to the same LAN.

Please help

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  jv on 24/08/2023 - 15:39

  +1

  QNAP

  do we need to connect to the same LAN.

  No

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  rumblytangara on 24/08/2023 - 16:05

  +2

  In all seriousness, from the way you wrote your original post: Use cloud storage and suck up the cost.

  Buying a NAS + drives will be higher initial expenditure, and then you need to back that up somewhere anyway (either to the cloud, or to other storage) so you add even more money on top of this. You need to back this up, because regardless of what you think a NAS will do, it won't protect you if the box dies- someone spills water on it, trips on it, steals it, hacks it, or it just pops from a bad power supply, whatever.

  And making your NAS accessible on the internet, when you clearly don't have a technical background, is asking for a world of hurt. Either you're going to get hacked and all your personal info gets taken, or you're going to get hacked and your data wiped or ransomed.

  Do you really need to access all 4TB of data from anywhere, or is that just a 'nice to have in theory' kind of thing?

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  If you really, really want to go the NAS route then the usual recommendations are QNAP or Synology. Avoid Western Digital - they have a long history of flawed NAS products.

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    tobuyRnot2buy on 24/08/2023 - 17:00

    Access the whole thing is kind of nice to have thingy. Currently i have Idrive.

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  apple2016 on 24/08/2023 - 16:57

  QNAP or Synology

  just ensure you have setup the redundancy so you are covered if one of the disc fails.

  do we need to connect to the same LAN.

  if you need your data to be accessible over the internet cloud is the best solution.
  its possible to access your NAS over the internet, but you need a robust internet and need to setup the access (and make it secure ) etc.

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  FoxJump on 24/08/2023 - 17:04

  nas + vpn server at home

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  Sal in SA on 24/08/2023 - 17:58

  OR combo - Cloud and NAS 2 way sync.

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  CyberMurning on 24/08/2023 - 18:41

  yes you can access your nas from anywhere in the world.

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  randomusername2017 on 25/08/2023 - 08:14

  have hard disks but based on the reviews, they seem to die sooner or later.

  And a nas device uses what to store large amounts of data?¿

  Network access storage(cloud) or network attached storage?