Re: NAS Backup solution? (NAS? What NAS?)

On 23 Jun, Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> wrote:

I looked it up. It seems to be an ARM CPU in an enclosure that has only room
for one drive. For a NAS, I would be looking for an enclosure that could
hold 4 drives, but those are getting rarer. The secondhand market has
plenty of small form factor desktops with low-end x86 or AMD64
processors and room for 2 drives for less than what this costs.

I have a couple of old x86 boxes lying around which could be put to this
type of use, but they're fairly large, and space is limited. Possible
solution for future consideration though.

If you need to put the drives externally in a stack of USB enclosures,
you might as well use an RPI4 in a CanoKit box.

I don't get the attraction of this type of device.

I've been using this one for years - the internal SATA HDD is only about
200GB, and the USB drives I mentioned are connected to the USB ports. It's
ideal for my simple requirements for keeping back-ups of the various
devices on my LAN, but I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to Raspberry Pi
OS, I have limited (and not recent) experience running various flavours of
Linux on x86 boxes, but rather feeling my way with this Pi 5.

When I have a bit more time I'll look in to connecting the two USB drives
to the Pi5 and see if I can use rsynch to make a manual backup for the
time being.

Thanks for the suggestions.
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Brian Howlett
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