Quoting Steve G., from the post of Fri, 04 Oct: > > So I am thinking, maybe I should get an external network drive, or raid, or > NAS, and use it to consolidate my drive and keep all my files in one place > from now onward.
I have yet to see a cheap hardware off-the-shelf NAS that can beat a PC in performance or flexibility. I would get three WD Red disks and build a Linux machine around them, doesn't have to be too powerful. Don't stick old drives in there, you want reliability. use RAID5 in software, dm-crypt if you want some privacy, Samba, NFS and OwnClouׁ• like people already suggested, and a very logical directory tree so you can find everything easily. Also - backup backup baskup. there are cheap cloud services where you can have unlimited storagef for $20-$#0 a year, the better ones support rsync. don't be too cheap, you want your data alive. Especially unique stuff like family photos that can't be recovered from a torrent site... -- Built by 100 monkeys with 100 typewriters Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
