We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
Most do, yes but best to have at least a passing knowledge in security practices before doing that. At the very least, ensure that whatever you get supports 2FA for user logins and has a track record of patching vulnerabilities quickly. IMO, I wouldn't trust a WD device after their massive hack that killed their service for 10 days.
Maybe check a Synology or QNAP device.
Depends on the NAS. Some of them offer native cloud option or access via the VPN.
VPN and SFTP. That is the way.
Yeah!
But, you still can use smth like Synology cloud sync to synchronize the data on cloud and access them via the internet. For sure, suitable Synology NAS is required.
Yes.
My comment was aimed more at he diyers who setup their own NAS solution
Hmm.
But the question was obviously not about DIY NAS... Ok.
It's a data hoarder forum. Everyone hangs around enough on this forum is bound to becomes a NAS diyer at some point. May as we make suggestions toward the inevitability.
I do not see any issues using not DIY NAS, as OP wants. As you mentioned, it is a data hoarder forum where people can save the data where they want.
Hey, I don't judge. I love all my data hoarder brothers and sisters. I'm just saying, eventually, everyone goes a little crazy and they need to have 100 Pb of storage and when that happens, you fall into the rabbit hole that is the diy NAS server.
Well, but if that doesn't happen?
I do prefer pre-built NAS over DIY when it comes for simple and straightforward solution, but it still depends from the use case.
You do you 😉
It is still not only about me. But ok.
Your the only one replying...
Well, same I can tell about you.