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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.

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Becoming a secure Data Hoarder without a NAS - Fragmented data everywhere (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I might have messed up... I recently bought a 4TB SSD, Samsung 870 EVO, for the purposes of moving all my data from fragmented external Hard drives to one SSD that I can have SATA'd on my desktop.

Then I realized I've always wanted a RAID setup and the peace of mind that comes from the array. The first thing that comes to mind is a NAS setup, but for me to buy that and another two disks is about $400 and I've already spent $220 on the 4TB mentioned above, which I'd probably like to keep anyway, because like yourselves, I'm a Data hoarder.

Doing some searches online, others seemed to imply a NAS and RAID are nice but my original idea of moving everything to an SSD is also sound, even without RAID array protection.

Now I'm paralyzed with indecision and really want to move all my data from the external hard drives I have to a single source, and because I manage my Family's pictures and videos, it has a lot of sensitive data I never want to lose.

Am I over thinking it, should I just move everything to the Samsung 4Tb attached to my home desktop? I also start to worry about malware risk of keeping it on my workstation, which is why I bought smaller external hard drives over the years, to begin with.

You guys are the kings here, what would the community recommend? Is buying a NAS really the next natural step? Maybe just buy another really large external hard drive which is cheaper? $100 would get me a nice 4TB one, and I could move everything to that, again it wouldn't be in a RAID though.

The cost of the NAS is what is what is making this decision hard for me, and the fact that I just got this nice Samsung SSD.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't understand why everybody is fanatic about RAID in home environment... Until you don't have a bulletproof backup, you shouldn't even think about it