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15 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

restore backups

If the are in some Open Format or if there an Desktop Application Available for.

Thats like a Company told me when a Product from a Customer hat died: "no problem for restore the data just buy another of (hat huge expensive) Machine and plug in the HDD recover the Data and that throw away. There is no other option. Its like ? .

22 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

And most premade boxes are just running linux md raid so its pretty easy to get the data off of it.

In theory if the are not encrypt.

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1 hour ago, Required said:

In theory if the are not encrypt

even if its encrypted its using encfs normally. Its all standard linux, you can use the drive on anouther system if you wan.t

 

1 hour ago, Required said:

There is no other option.

Because you should always have backup. Just assume the raid/nas will fail and plan for that. There is no perfect storage soltuion.

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3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Because you should always have backup.

Sure but not some proprietary shit where you need the same Hardware and Software for a Rebuild.

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29 minutes ago, Required said:

Sure but not some proprietary shit where you need the same Hardware and Software for a Rebuild.

to rebuild most of those nas boxes you put anouther drive in nothing special. There running linux under the hood and normal linux software raid. Nothing special. 

 

The premade nas boxes work well for uses like this were you want good software and a quiet low power easy to use box. DIY will be more of a pain to setup and use.

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10 hours ago, Required said:

Until something happened and you cant access your data.

 

I dont know if the are still sold but how about an HP Micro Server?

The are damn cheap and working good. If you want you can put an Rail Controler in and some "cheap" 1TB NAS HDDs.

 

off the shelf NAS' as a whole just run Linux MD Raid, so its no different to recover from than many DIY systems. A lot of off the shelf nas' can drop down to shell, or you can ofc move the disks to a PC with a full blown linux distro. Most issues with custom built NAS' though are caused by bad configuration and questionable hardware compatibility. 

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It is already the second threat I've found that require this and I'm getting pretty annoyed. 

long story short you have 3 options.

1 Make a second Lan and go to that pain to get your thing

2 Make a DAS

3 If you are afraid to let your secrets near the internet build a sterile computer and storage device ( that you should never be connected to other devices, no USB flash, no external HDD, SSD, and the obvious internet.