I like them for what they are good at, but hard drives are terrible for archive storage purposes. If you look at old school PCs, old hard drives almost never work. New ones are improved, sure, but there's still enough of the same design that will struggle to survive 30 years of storage. I wouldn't save anything on a hard drive as the only way to have it 10 years from now.
I went with a QNAP TS1079 Pro. I had a couple of their six bay units before that (639 and 659 I think, it's been a while). They have all been great. It has been several years since I looked into it, so I'm not exactly up to date on the state of the art. I do remember that there were several different manufacturers offering similar products, so you have plenty of options.
Cool, that at least gives me a baseline to work from.
I've just got so much stuff accumulated from over the years that storing it all on the tower feels like it's not going to be sustainable for too much longer since consumer drive capacity seems to have completely capped out at 8TB and hasn't budged for years.
I like them for what they are good at, but hard drives are terrible for archive storage purposes. If you look at old school PCs, old hard drives almost never work. New ones are improved, sure, but there's still enough of the same design that will struggle to survive 30 years of storage. I wouldn't save anything on a hard drive as the only way to have it 10 years from now.
That's what RAID5 is for. My NAS has been going strong for well over 10 years.
Got any product recommendations for a consumer grade NAS for someone who isn't really looking to stand up a full fledged server rack?
I went with a QNAP TS1079 Pro. I had a couple of their six bay units before that (639 and 659 I think, it's been a while). They have all been great. It has been several years since I looked into it, so I'm not exactly up to date on the state of the art. I do remember that there were several different manufacturers offering similar products, so you have plenty of options.
Cool, that at least gives me a baseline to work from.
I've just got so much stuff accumulated from over the years that storing it all on the tower feels like it's not going to be sustainable for too much longer since consumer drive capacity seems to have completely capped out at 8TB and hasn't budged for years.