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NAS - Main point?

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What is the main point of a NAS instead of just having a big hard drive in your computer ?

Thanks.
 
I've tried and i've tried but i just cant get 8x hdds in my htpc box
 
It is much more energy efficient to have a nice nas installed for all of my local devices to access, than it is to have my main rig on 24/7.

Not to mention I use my nas box as a dedicated plex media server. And I have at least a few devices accessing it at any given time, or more.

In my case a nice dedicated NAS box is the best solution.
 
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Points:

1. You can have a shared storage with other on the network without opening your PC to threats, even from within your network.
2. A level of redundancy for backups just in case there is a critical failure of your PC or drives
3. NAS boxes tend to use lessor components that draw less power, so you don't have to have a heavy-draw system on all the time for others on the network.
4. As mw8t pointed out - physical capacity. You can keep adding drives(boxes) to the network. A case can only hold so many.
5. The can be helpful too for mixed networks. Some OS's don't like to read certain file formats, but the NAS systems tend to use a file format that is universally read(FAT is one of them).
6. Newer versions of Window's shared drives have convoluted sharing versus older versions, which can make sharing across a LAN a pain for others without as much PC experience. Whereas most NAS systems sharing can be set up to be open without convoluted sharing options.
 
Couldn't live without mine at this point. It has probably been the single most useful/used piece of electronic hardware I've bought in the past 10 years. I have an older Synology 2 bay model, but every time I run out of space I just upgrade the drives and it's been working flawlessly since day one.

My only word of caution is that even NAS's need to be backed up. I went a little overboard with backups for mine. Mine will backup to a local USB drive plugged into it, a Raspberry Pi with another USB drive over SSH/Rsync at my parents house. I lost a lot of data a long time ago and I will never go through that again.
 
I think you've gotten some answers, but one has been omitted.

Idiot proofing.

There's a lot of ways to fuck up your data if you store it on a local RAID array in your PC, or even on single disks or whatever. Most NAS devices have a setup wizard that's dead simple enough the average Best Buy customer could use it, and those wizards tend to prioritize redundancy of data or at least prompt users to set up redundant disks.
 
4330thgink said:
Points:

1. You can have a shared storage with other on the network without opening your PC to threats, even from within your network.
2. A level of redundancy for backups just in case there is a critical failure of your PC or drives
3. NAS boxes tend to use lessor components that draw less power, so you don't have to have a heavy-draw system on all the time for others on the network.
4. As mw8t pointed out - physical capacity. You can keep adding drives(boxes) to the network. A case can only hold so many.
5. The can be helpful too for mixed networks. Some OS's don't like to read certain file formats, but the NAS systems tend to use a file format that is universally read(FAT is one of them).
6. Newer versions of Window's shared drives have convoluted sharing versus older versions, which can make sharing across a LAN a pain for others without as much PC experience. Whereas most NAS systems sharing can be set up to be open without convoluted sharing options.
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7: Hard drives in desktop computers used day to day are at much higher risk of ransomware or other virus/malware that you're average user can easily acquire. NAS's are isolated especially if security is set right.
8: If necessary, you can lock your NAS in another room if physical security is of concern. IE, burglar in house takes PC, your data is safe on NAS.

This all said, a NAS is not a data retention solution entirely. It still is a single point of failure for your data. Having hard or alternate backups are still recommended.
 
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