NAS question

[Flowey]

So I've wondered for a while now how a NAS could be useful for someone like me, I pretty much game ad do school stuff on my build. My parents have 2 labtops that, since they'll be jealous, will be added to the NAS, so can someone explain what purposes I could use to convince my family to invest into it?

[VTF5252]

Just now, Flowey said:

So I've wondered for a while now how a NAS could be useful for someone like me, I pretty much game ad do school stuff on my build. My parents have 2 labtops that, since they'll be jealous, will be added to the NAS, so can someone explain what purposes I could use to convince my family to invest into it?

Keep pictures redundantly safe. Stream 'obtained' movies. Access one thing on multiple devices. Large amounts of storage.

[Flowey]

1 minute ago, NTF5252 said:

Keep pictures redundantly safe. Stream 'obtained' movies. Access one thing on multiple devices. Large amounts of storage.

Dude I just remembered my father lost like 5 freaking years of pictures a month ago to a virus. My father also likes to torrent the walking dead and a few other shows on the family's PS4, would he be able to use the NAS that way?

[Bacon8tor]

If done right, with maybe a simple Raid , All of your familys photos, videos, important documents can be stored there or at least backed up to the NAS. So lets say your Moms laptop hard drive suddenly dies, and all those pictures she took on your last vacation were only on her laptop. Well they'd be lost. So with a NAS if she were to have those pictures either stored on the NAS or backed from her computer to the NAS , all those pictures would be safe.   Ok you will have to research RAID levels ad see what works best for you. but this will mean that you can loose (depending on what RAID Level) 1 hard drive to failure but your data will still be safe as long as you can replace that drive before another hard drive failure. 

 

For me personally I use FreeNAS , I store my Music , videos, photos, documents on my NAS . can easily setup a plex server, so that I can access all my digital content. 

[VTF5252]

Just now, Flowey said:

Dude I just remembered my father lost like 5 freaking years of pictures a month ago to a virus. My father also likes to torrent the walking dead and a few other shows on the family's PS4, would he be able to use the NAS that way?

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yes. and safe pictures are very important.

[Bacon8tor]

watch this video, pretty good about desribing what you can do with freenas 

 

 

[Flowey]

Thx y'all, I'll make sure my father checks the video, since he works for CGI I guess he'll himself be messing around with he NAS as soon as it's setup. Also, should I go for a RAID 10 or RAID 5 or even RAID 6. RAID 10 was what I originally planned to use but I'll wait and see how much they're willing to invest on the project. Thx y'all again!

[brandishwar]

58 minutes ago, Flowey said:

Thx y'all, I'll make sure my father checks the video, since he works for CGI I guess he'll himself be messing around with he NAS as soon as it's setup. Also, should I go for a RAID 10 or RAID 5 or even RAID 6. RAID 10 was what I originally planned to use but I'll wait and see how much they're willing to invest on the project. Thx y'all again!

That depends on the NAS itself. If you build a system capable of using FreeNAS, you can expand storage over time by starting with one mirrored pair of drives and then add additional mirrors as needed. The mirroring allows for immediate redundancy and faster rebuilds. If you're going to buy all your storage up front and don't foresee upgrading the storage in the future, then either RAID 6 or RAID 10 -- avoid RAID 5.

 

But bear in mind, however, that the NAS should not be the only backup you have of important data. Earlier vacation photos were mentioned. If the NAS dies, and that's the only place they're stored because you misleadingly thought they'd be "safe" there, then they're gone. So look into off-site "cloud" backup solutions as well. Many are very, very cheap -- a penny or less per GB. Even DropBox, Google Drive, or Microsoft OneDrive will work, and those services can be very cheap for a decent amount of storage.

[Danielh90]

lol weird thought if you have important stuff like pictures and videos. put it on the nas and if your house is on fire you unplug that nas and run with it outside. and all your pictures and videos from your childhood is safe .