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I run Plex server and various scraping stuff, Calibre library, etc on there 24/7 as well as storage. Think it averages something like 15W at idle.
I'm not sure I believe this number... but single machines are so hard to measure. The Synology will be 26W idle, and 59W fully active. The SSD cache allows the HDD to hibernate for longer, meaning it will be idle the majority of the time.
And it depends what you have on the storage as to how important it is and how paranoid one is likely to be... for me:
- All photographs
- All docs, banks statements, conveyancing, receipts, manuals, insurance, mortgage, etc
- All of my partner's academic research, papers, PhD, notes, etc
- All of the music I ripped from the 6K CDs in the loft that took over 3 years to rip
- All of the movies I ripped from the 1.2K DVDs and Blu-Rays
- Some other downloading media from various sources (there's a lot of this, but not more of this than the other stuff above)
The first few of those are such that yeah, I'm doing full 3-2-1 backup strategy, at least 3 copies (local, NAS, and backup), on 2 medias (SSD local + HDD NAS and backup), and 1 off-site / disconnected (the backup).
I'm even more paranoid in fact, the document class above is also syncthing on a few encrypted laptops so my primary copy is always a working copy rather than the NAS.
But the NAS is the golden copy, the long-lived copy.
- All photographs
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Interesting reading the above, entirely different from my approach which was to just find a suitable case and motherboard that would allow a lot of drives, get a good PSU and build up a headless PC with Windows 11.
I run Plex server and various scraping stuff, Calibre library, etc on there 24/7 as well as storage. Think it averages something like 15W at idle.
Very little on there couldn't be recreated with a bit of effort so stuff I need gets backed up to the cloud, I do a weekly file listing so I know what is on there and don't bother with RAID or backups (other than the OS which would be a bit more of a faff to set up again).