Did I just Rip myself off by making a NAS?

[Indus Monk]

I have a

 

4690k

GTX 1060 6GB

8GB DDR 3

120GB SSD

 

As spare hardware, and I just built a NAS out of it.

I paid 20 USD for a case and wifi card. 103 USD For 4tb SATA HDD. And 60 USD For a PSU. Did I just rip myself off by building a second system for just cold storage? Now because it has a GTX 1060, I can do some light gaming, plex and 0 USD Ad free Youtube etc. But, just on the cold storage aspect of it, did I just rip myself off?

 

I was looking at prices for cloud storage

 

• Google Drive is 6500 INR (86 USD) Per year for 2TB
• MEGA is 13,250 INR per year for 8TB (175 USD)
• One Drive is 6,500 INR (85 USD) for 6TB Per year

 

All told the system cost me 15,000 INR (197 USD). So it seems like I have ;-;

[Levent]

I personally would recommend backblaze instead of all of those. And answer is yes, you didnt consider all your options before spending money.

https://www.backblaze.com/backup-pricing.html

[FloRolf]

Well the benefit of a NAS is obviously the much higher speed compared to accessing your data over the internet everytime. 

It's also much easier to expand to very high storage demands and YOU have YOUR data, and not Google (or others). 

 

Negative is ofc the initial price and the high power consumption. 

[Indus Monk]

21 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Well the benefit of a NAS is obviously the much higher speed compared to accessing your data over the internet everytime. 

It's also much easier to expand to very high storage demands and YOU have YOUR data, and not Google (or others). 

 

Negative is ofc the initial price and the high power consumption. 

Much higher speed? as in "much higher speed over a windows network file share"?

 

My wifi card is limited to 150mbps. Though I have AC Wifi. The wifi card isn't AC wifi though compatible though.

[Indus Monk]

12 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Well the benefit of a NAS is obviously the much higher speed compared to accessing your data over the internet everytime. 

It's also much easier to expand to very high storage demands and YOU have YOUR data, and not Google (or others). 

 

Negative is ofc the initial price and the high power consumption. 

 

40 minutes ago, Levent said:

I personally would recommend backblaze instead of all of those. And answer is yes, you didnt consider all your options before spending money.

https://www.backblaze.com/backup-pricing.html

So, let's go off topic here for a minute. I put win 10 on it. What can I do with this system other than PLEX and HTPC and Gaming and a cold E mailing server?

How about a VPN server? An Adblocker for my home network? etc etc etc

[Indus Monk]

21 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

Well the benefit of a NAS is obviously the much higher speed compared to accessing your data over the internet everytime. 

It's also much easier to expand to very high storage demands and YOU have YOUR data, and not Google (or others). 

 

Negative is ofc the initial price and the high power consumption. 

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Nevermind

[voyager_]

-Plex

-Backups/your own cloud

-VM's

-webhosting

-minecraft servers if your into it

-home assistant server

-ad-blocker

-local DNS

-VPN to your home

-share printers

-game streaming

 

There is alot that you can do, the wifi is going to be your biggest limitation.