On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 6:06 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 3:53 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <SNIP> > > Maybe this is a good excuse > >> to start working on a NAS. :/ > > That's my vote. (For the second time) > > > > I'm using a FreeBSD Nas (TrueNAS) but they recently came out with a > > Linux version which you might be more comfortable with. If you use a > > 1Gb/S or higher network connection it's quite fast. > > > > You can also go the Synology route via Amazon. You can get a 2-disk > > NAS chassis which does RAID for around $250 last time I looked. > > > > Good luck whatever you do. > > > > Mark > > Other than being another piece of equipment running up a light bill, it > is the best way to deal with this. The way I'm doing now is a bit of a > struggle at times. I just need to get other things done first, from a > money perspective which inflation isn't helping on. A trip to the > grocery story is no fun anymore. > > One of these days tho. I just gotta do it. > > Dale
I hear you about groceries and inflation. Wol pushed me to build my first one just using an old computer. I had an old machine - case, power supply with a bad motherboard so I purchased an i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz motherboard with 8GB memory used at a computer store for $40. Surprisingly that's more than enough CPU & memory for basic backups. No matter what you're going to have to pay for the drives whether they go in your box, in external cases or in a backup machine. I only turn it on to do backups or to retrieve data so not much electricity.
