![]() ![]() Yes, I'm a Linux sysadmin, but I have more than enough Linux boxen needing my attention. From that perspective, I've only spent $33/month on storage, as the remaining third still has value.Įase-of-use: The reason to go with a NAS is ease-of-use, so I don't have to mess with it. For the same price as I spent 5 years ago, I can now get three times the storage, including faster processors in the NAS box. ![]() ![]() Since we all have the same hardware costs, it's unlikely that any online cloud storage can do better than doing it yourself. Amazon's "Glacier" service is $108/month. It's been $3000 over 5 years (including the two replacement drives). Mechanical drives access times are slow, and I don't see any way of fixing that.Ĭost. I've been unhappy with the speed, but there's not much I can do about it. RAID5 (one drive redundancy) is for chumps. Buying a new drive, swapping it in, and rebuilding the RAID went painless, though that's because I used RAID6 (two drive redundancy). I had two drives fail, which is about to be expected. I thought I'd give the 5 year perspective. As I described in 2012, I bought a home "NAS" system. I have lots of data-sets (packet-caps, internet-scans), so I need a large RAID system to hole it all. ![]()
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