• ÚwÙ-Passwort@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    If you have enough data for a extra hard drive id recommend a nas.

    A good 2Bay one is between 100 and 200. Add 2 drives for a raid 1 and your data is protected against drive failure. Now you have a storage place that is accessible from all Devices. Wanna watch a video?Well its there and playable from PC, Phone or your TV.

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      4 months ago

      You know how that goes though, now the ethernet isn’t fast enough to allow that nas experience to be seamless. 2.5gbit… 10gbit? Now you need a new switch maybe a new router too. It just goes downhill from there haha

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        4 months ago

        One of us! One of us! One of us! One of us!

        Funnily enough, network is the only thing i didnt touch. I changed my habbits so that my server does all the work/heavy lifting. I started with a cheap 2bay nas, switched to a 4bay micro server, that i later modified to 5 for an cache ssd. From there i build a am4 machine from scratch and added a ups.

        Currengly im waiting gor a good deal on drives as the used space slowly creeps from 22tib to 23tib(100% used)

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      4 months ago

      I’m dumb. Any advice on how to get started with something like that? I’d appreciate product recommendations appropriate for a newb

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        4 months ago

        Synology is a NAS Iʼd recommend. However, after you become more familiar with the command line and if you are building your own Debian machine with a motherboard that supports many hard drives, I would recommend something like this procedure; this applies especially if you are the only one who will be accessing the files and are just wanting a way to combine the storage capacities of multiple hard drives.

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      4 months ago

      A NAS is good for movies or TV, but putting games on one is asking for trouble. Local Network Bandwith exists. LAN parties knew this back in the day.