Hi All!

As the title says, I am on the search now for a file storage system. Currently I have all of my photos and associated files backing up to cloud storage which works well. But I do worry if I reach a day where a provider decides to stop cloud storage (highly unlikely) or I decide to move to another method and I am downloading tb worth of data and moving it.

Currently thinking of switching to a (noob friendly) NAS where my onedrive will backup on to it once a month or so.

I am also really clueless on servers, this has been a thought over the weekend while storing more images.

Am I crazy or does this sound like a good option?

  • flabmeister@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t say it’s “highly unlikely” that some companies stop storage. Companies do go out of business.

    I currently have the following.

    Home:

    Synology NAS - JPEGs

    OWC Thunderbay DAS - Everything

    Offsite:

    Backblaze complete backup

      • flabmeister@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have the Synology DS218J with 2 x 4TB WD Red drives in a RAID 1+0 config giving me 4TB of mirrored storage.

        I then have an OWC Thunderbay 8 currently with 6 x 8TB Toshiba Enterprise drives again set up as RAID 1+0 giving me 24TB of mirrored storage.

    • Precarious314159@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t say it’s “highly unlikely” that some companies stop storage. Companies do go out of business.

      But wouldn’t the major ones give a notification that they were going to end and give people a chance to migrate? Like I can’t imagine backblaze just vanishes one day, taking everything with’em.