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<blockquote data-quote="Nightops" data-source="post: 1335128" data-attributes="member: 11373"><p>If you need to protect data, go with a NAS. If you really want to protect it, go with a NAS and one additional copy that you keep off-site. Even better than that get 2 off-site units and rotate between them. The off-site aspect protects your data against a single point of failure like your NAS enclosure, house fire, etc.</p><p></p><p>Decide for yourself how valuable and irreplaceable the data is, because hard drives and storage solutions are at an all time low in terms of $$ per GB of storage.</p><p></p><p>All hard drives will eventually fail, they are a mechanical item with moving pieces, they all will fail. No one manufacturer is any more dominant than others in terms of service life, and they all have some lemons that fail sooner than you would expect.</p><p></p><p>Determine what your data is worth to you, and how much would you be willing to spend to not have to re-create it. Then buy enough protection to make that happen.</p><p></p><p>Personally I keep my data in a Buffalo NAS with 4x 1TB drives in RAID5. I get about 3TB of usable space, and can lose any 1 drive without losing data. I can share this data to any computer on my home network, and stream media to an Xbox. Computers themselves are just OS and programs that can all be re-installed. If something needs to be portable, I have options from thumbdrives, DVD-R, and portable hard drives depending on the size, but those are all short term solutions, not long term storage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nightops, post: 1335128, member: 11373"] If you need to protect data, go with a NAS. If you really want to protect it, go with a NAS and one additional copy that you keep off-site. Even better than that get 2 off-site units and rotate between them. The off-site aspect protects your data against a single point of failure like your NAS enclosure, house fire, etc. Decide for yourself how valuable and irreplaceable the data is, because hard drives and storage solutions are at an all time low in terms of $$ per GB of storage. All hard drives will eventually fail, they are a mechanical item with moving pieces, they all will fail. No one manufacturer is any more dominant than others in terms of service life, and they all have some lemons that fail sooner than you would expect. Determine what your data is worth to you, and how much would you be willing to spend to not have to re-create it. Then buy enough protection to make that happen. Personally I keep my data in a Buffalo NAS with 4x 1TB drives in RAID5. I get about 3TB of usable space, and can lose any 1 drive without losing data. I can share this data to any computer on my home network, and stream media to an Xbox. Computers themselves are just OS and programs that can all be re-installed. If something needs to be portable, I have options from thumbdrives, DVD-R, and portable hard drives depending on the size, but those are all short term solutions, not long term storage. [/QUOTE]
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