[ale] DIY NAS vs Boxed NAS?

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Tue Dec 4 10:30:50 EST 2018


Nope, not business, this is entirely personal.  No cloud storage.

On 2018-12-04 06:15, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> If you’re talking for business…. Amazon Glacier.
> 
>> On Dec 3, 2018, at 7:35 PM, Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>> Can't do cloud backup.  Number one, I don't like it, I'm not in control.
>> Number two: I have a 3 Mbps uplink on a good day.  Mirroring the NAS to
>> the cloud would take a century (over 2 TB of data that would be high value).
>>
>> I'm not concerned about theft but I would watch for hardware failure so
>> I'd have a local copy (probably one super large drive hanging off the
>> system that spins up once in a while to mirror the array).


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