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First off, is this the right place for this thread?  If not how do I move the thread?

 

I am think about NASing for the first time, and I was wondering what you can store on a NAS.  I know you can store photos movies documents etc etc, I don't think you can store games...  What else can you store? 

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 and you can store pretty much what you said, you pretty much answered your own question, not much more i can think of at least

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First off, is this the right place for this thread?  If not how do I move the thread?

 

I am think about NASing for the first time, and I was wondering what you can store on a NAS.  I know you can store photos movies documents etc etc, I don't think you can store games...  What else can you store? 

You can store anything in it

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You can store anything on it. BUT, in saying that, you can't install programs on them. As in, you can't install Photoshop in the NAS drives to use on your PC.

It is possible, but it's rather advanced.

Majority of NAS users store photos, music, documents and movies/shows/videos on them as well as system back-ups.

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Anything you want you can put on a NAS system as long as its for storage

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anything. It's basically an extra hard drive (or multiple, most of the time multiple) in an enclosure separated from your computer and connected via network. Store anything you want on it, be it porn or school documents.

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anything. It's basically an extra hard drive (or multiple, most of the time multiple) in an enclosure separated from your computer and connected via network. Store anything you want on it, be it porn or school documents.

The former is much better and more useful ;D

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Think about it like a networked USB key.

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You can store anything on it. BUT, in saying that, you can't install programs on them. As in, you can't install Photoshop in the NAS drives to use on your PC.

It is possible, but it's rather advanced.

 

The problem is Versions. If you open a file you don't want anybody else to open it, to be able to write it back. If you are using your NAS as a network DAS that might work. iSCSI is an IP based block level protocol, means what's sent over the ethernet is basically the same information you would use to access a hard drive in your pc. Better use that instead of SNMP/AFP based connections if you plan on running software from it

 

 

Think about it like a networked USB key.

this. or an USB stick that you can leave at home and still access it from outer networks.

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If its roomy enough you can even store some odds and ends.

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Anything you can store on a regular harddrive. It is essentially like storing stuff on a server, it just doesn't have server software on it.

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First off, is this the right place for this thread?  If not how do I move the thread?

 

I am think about NASing for the first time, and I was wondering what you can store on a NAS.  I know you can store photos movies documents etc etc, I don't think you can store games...  What else can you store? 

 

You can store all files you like to be safe (you mentioned the types), assuming you use some sort of RAID type redundancy setup, FreeNas has RaidZ which is considered better. That said you can share much easier in your house, or create personal cloud so you have access to those files from anywhere. A NAS inherently is always ON, so you don't need to power your PC for your girlfriend to access her photos, she just goes in on her phone or laptop and done.

 

What I am trying to say is, it is not about what type of files you safe but the features that the NAS offers you and how you use them. Other then that you are better of with an additional HDD in your PC easier and cheaper, much cheaper :)

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You can store all files you like to be safe (you mentioned the types), assuming you use some sort of RAID type redundancy setup, FreeNas has RaidZ which is considered better. That said you can share much easier in your house, or create personal cloud so you have access to those files from anywhere. A NAS inherently is always ON, so you don't need to power your PC for your girlfriend to access her photos, she just goes in on her phone or laptop and done.

 

What I am trying to say is, it is not about what type of files you safe but the features that the NAS offers you and how you use them. Other then that you are better of with an additional HDD in your PC easier and cheaper, much cheaper :)

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Why my girlfriend?  I have photos too...  Sexist pig :D

 

That's supposed to be stored on a DAS, far away from the interwebs  plugged in once a month and else being keep in the back of a corner of a corner of a corner of your closet. For the sake of us all, don't spread it :D  :D :D :D :D

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That's supposed to be stored on a DAS, far away from the interwebs  plugged in once a month and else being kept in the back of the back of the back of the back of your closet. For the sake of us all, don't spread it :D  :D :D :D :D

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Anything you can store on a regular harddrive. It is essentially like storing stuff on a server, it just doesn't have server software on it.

 

I bet it could store stuff from an irregular hard drive as well ^_^

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I bet it could store stuff from an irregular hard drive as well ^_^

 

I am almost positive you can!

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Porn. Lots and lots of porn.

 

Pretty much anything you can put on a regular hard drive or flash drive, minus the operating system.

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I want to go NASing too... sounds like fun.

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I want to go NASing too... sounds like fun.

 

It really is :)

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 minus the operating system.

 

Oh yes you can.

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you can store pretty much anything but I use it as backups of installers to my applications, ISOs (legal ISO i'm talking here), pictures and pretty much anything that I don't need to constantly access. The access is slow on 100Mbps (yeah, having Gigabit connection is really great but I'm limited to that capability at this moment) so stuff like games/application installations shouldn't be there, unless you don't mind a really slow loading time.

 

Opening music, videos from there for your own consumption can be done without problem but again, you don't want to do editing/production stuff from your NAS as well because of the slow connection. I'm not sure if gigabit connection will allow that or not, but I think theoretically you should have similar speed just like you run it on your own PC (not an SSD speed though)

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I use my little home server/nas as a network backup for all of my families computers/phones/tablets etc, even if they are not at home, backups run nightly and wake up the computers to backup then the computer goes back to sleep after

 

it also has remote access so I can access it anywhere through the web

 

runs plex so I can stream my music films and photos to everyones devices (ps3, iphone etc etc)

 

I have one of the drives mapped and use it as my steam install folder, running over gigabit ethernet I dont seem to suffer any speed problems and can just map the drive to any computer in my house to play my steam games

 

That is just a few things I use it for. It is running raid 10 for redundancy and speed, and then the whole server is backed up to an unlimited online cloud service that uses 256bit aes encryption (that I got free from work for 5 years yay) just incase anything happens

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Oh yes you can.

Well you can, just it isn't that logical to.

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