TriX wrote:
You are correct - a NAS is a very useful data repository that can be accessed by multiple users for sharing and can be accessed anywhere with an Internet connection. It can also incorporate a RAID and snapshots/versioning for additional data protection. Also it can be accessed by Mac, PC and Linux platforms. The NAS doesn’t care because it will serve data as CIFS, NFS or HTTP depending on the client. The only downside relative to direct attached storage (DAS) is speed. Most home users will attach it via gigabit (1000mb) ethernet, so the max transfer speed will never exceed 100 MB/sec., but if you populate it with spinning disk, that’s about the average speed of the disk anyway and also as fast as you can access data via WiFi or over the internet. On the other hand, if you have a 10Gb ethernet backbone and build the NAS out of SSDs, the you can 10x that speed, but that’s generally for high end or commercial applications. Also if you have an old PC lying around, you can use it as a NAS using SW such as TrueNAS, OpenMediaVault, UnRAID, etc.
You are correct - a NAS is a very useful data repo... (
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Just a thought - You can pick up a used computer or a refurbished one fairly cheap