Is it worth getting an portableHDD/SSD when running a NAS?

[Scruffy90]

Is it worth getting an portableHDD/SSD when running a NAS?

 

For those that currently have NAS' and regularly use HDD/SSD, what is your use case?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Do you need the external hdd? They both have a different use case, and I use both.

[Firewrath9]

37 minutes ago, Scruffy90 said:

Is it worth getting an portableHDD/SSD when running a NAS?

 

For those that currently have NAS' and regularly use HDD/SSD, what is your use case?

i have a small 1 tb hdd that i use to back up my computer in case my NAS fails

[Scruffy90]

23 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Do you need the external hdd? They both have a different use case, and I use both.

99% of the time I don't. I usually VPN into my network and access the NAS. There are a few circumstances where I don't have internet or my network goes down however. 

 

The NAS is backed up to a couple of Ext HDD's.

 

What are your use cases for both? Do you carry the external with you regularly?

4 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

i have a small 1 tb hdd that i use to back up my computer in case my NAS fails

I have a few externals for backups. I unfortunately, have a lot of crap and some level of redundancy.

[Firewrath9]

i keep the external in my house, but i bought a UPS for my NAS and wifi so im fine.

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 hour ago, Scruffy90 said:

Is it worth getting an portableHDD/SSD when running a NAS?

 

For those that currently have NAS' and regularly use HDD/SSD, what is your use case?

I like to have an external drive because I'm a bit paranoid about ransomware, even though I'm confident enough that I won't be opening random things on the internet to trigger such malware. I access my NAS over SMB so I can access it like a network drive in File Explorer and at the moment the account I use to access it has write privileges to the data. So if something where to infect my PC, it also has access to the NAS. Of course I should just be mucking around with permissions so that the account I use to access the NAS is read only, with another account used for updating it but I've been too lazy.

 

Otherwise, the other side of it is that my computer doesn't house all of my data that I want to keep. The external and NAS do. So in effect, I only have two copies of all of the data I want. And there's peace of mind knowing I have a copy of my data that's not accessible unless I actually say it is (i.e., throwing a power switch)

[AskTJ]

I have an old Toshiba 120GB HDD that I connect using a SATA to USB adapter and copy over any files that are important or are long term storage.]