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9 Jan
9:31am, 9 Jan 2025
26,375 posts
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larkim
I suppose it depends on your needs, but I've had a very simple backup disc attached to a router (an Asus one) via USB in the past which provided what I needed.
Are you looking for a NAS where you will just move files to as you need it, or thinking more about a dedicated backup server that routinely grabs data and backs it up, including identifying changes etc etc. The former is more what I had (I do have a proper consumer grade NAS as well), the latter is more complex and I would suspect buying a fully built system from a provider would be a better choice in the long run unless you had the tech capabilities to manage and configure the server yourself (which you may well have!)
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9 Jan
11:11pm, 9 Jan 2025
23,473 posts
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rf_fozzy
OK sorry, been busy all day today, so not had chance to reply to some of the suggestions.
Why not buy a commercial solution - no particular reason other than the cost and the fact that they will be massive overkill for what I need (<8TB storage).
I could, in theory, buy the components and build and potentially purchase software to set up and manage the system, but I think that this would also be overkill for the storage requirements I need (hence this thread). This was what I was originally planning on doing.
Essentially I need a network storage solution only accessible on a home network. Much like cloud storage which I considered, but...cloud storage is expensive - e.g. Dropbox is £17/month (so £200/year) for 3TB and I need a bit more than that ideally (it's also limited to single user which isn't great). It also ties me into a particular provider.....
Additionally my experiences with OneDrive via work is that when it works, it's fine, but when it breaks, it's just a PITA. And file download is s.....l......o......w...... - even on fast networks.
I'd rather shift my stuff off from Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive and only use those as required for ongoing project files.
The Raspberry-Pi solution I posted on the previous page seems to be a nice cheap sensible solution - esentially all you need is a Pi and power supply, a powered USB hub and then external USB storage - so the expensive bit is the storage. The bits I don't know about this approach is (a) how robust the set-up is - would it survive being switched on and off without failing? And would it need reinitialising if it does get switched off? And (b) how to do the mirroring - i've not done that sort of thing before, and although it shouldn't be beyond my capabilities, I'm not sure what a Raspberry Pi can handle, having not used one before.
If it'll do what I want, then it should be a low power (low running cost) and cheap solution to my problem - and certainly buildable for less than £400 - so would make it's money back pretty quickly in comparison to alternatives.
Comments and corrections to my suppositions welcome! Teach me!
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Garmin
Jan 2025
