Subj : Re: Hola
To   : Arelor
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Apr 29 2023 07:36 am

-=> Arelor wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ar> IMO, a NAS should be a NAS only. There is value in separating your
 Ar> computing from your storage.

That's sound advice, if you're willing to accept the risk, an all-in-one
solution is pretty nice. I envision a small company being able to set up
a NAS, backup, drive sync, email, and collaboration tools on a Synology
NAS, but in reality, a company would just get G suite or Microsoft 365.

Seems like a solution for 2005. I wish they were around when I was
setting up Microsoft Small Business Servers...

In my environment, I'm not using any of the collaboration apps since
it's just me. I've got a homelab running on Proxmox for apps.

 Ar> If you only need cheap network attatched storage, you can get some
 Ar> second hand Buffalo link station with two bays. Or an old ShareCenter.

The reason I bought my Synology was it was dirt cheap and used - $119
for a 5-bay DS1010+.   :)

 Ar> You can put a lot of storage in a two bay unit as long as you can live
 Ar> with increased failure probabilities (which is exactly what you should
 Ar> be expecting when working on a low budget). Thankfully, we all have our
 Ar> backups XD.

I've had RAID for a long time -- my desktop was mirrored for 10 years,
and I couldn't imagine running a stripe set in a 2-bay NAS. I'd rather
spend twice as much for mirroring.

I had a bunch of 2TB drives laying around, so thankfully I was able to
populate my NAS and give me 7TB with redundancy.



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