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This will be £400 with 4x1TB NAS drives (in RAID5 so 3TB usable storage and it can handle one drive failure at any point - will order a spare 1TB drive next month).
3TB is way more than I need (I need 500GB max for my own photos/docs/data) and I have a 1.5TB external HDD as a separate backup. The other space will be future proofing, scratch space and a chunk for my brother to rsync his backup to (I'll be doing the same to the NAS at his house).
NAS = main backup with redundant disks
external HDD = on-site backup in case NAS dies
rsync to brother's NAS = backup in case house burns downMost useful thing is that I can run other stuff on the NAS (it even supports Docker images) which means I have a single place for a git repo, temp/humidity monitoring server/logs, etc that's all nicely backed up.
Once I've sorted out my old drives the next thing I need to do is to get all of my personal stuff (emails, photos, data) off my work laptop so that can just be for work. I'll probably put a Windows 10 VM on my ESXi box and just remote desktop into it when necessary.
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chez_jay
That looks good. I keep looking at NAS as my Mrs.H is not keen on cloud storage (cost, risk, longevity) but always think it's overkill.
What do you reckon is the cheapest you could set one up for?