How do you store your files at home?
Scattered over 3 or 4 computers with network shares and external backup drives. I keep saying I'll build a NAS at some point but never seem to actually get around to it.
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Single computer + 3 external HDD's. Also using cloud storage like MEGA and Dropbox on the computer for crucial files.
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I only use my laptop for my studies and my gaming. Any files I share with others I simply put on a Dropbox. I do so for a lot of study material too so I can access it on my phone.
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Do you have any issue with documents being opened from two different machines at the same time (e.g. your desktop and your phone)? I wonder how does Dropbox handle such cases.
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Being OPENED isn't a problem at all. In case you're working at it from both things at the same time, you get notified by this little icon when changes have been made, allowing you to update to the newest version.
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I'm looking to set up a NAS eventually because of the convenience/features but right now I just have a couple of external hard drives.
edit: my router does have something called Shareport which allows a USB storage device to be accessed over the network, but it is not the same as a true NAS solution
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- other server (NAS) with RAID5
- from time to time I launching linux and just copy (dd) entire disk into file
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I wish I could afford the type of network connectivity and cloud storage which would fit my needs. I'm glad it's working for you.
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I have a simple small 100/15 connection and a 100 GB space on OneDrive, but it is enough for now. Large media files are kept on two HDDs, using a sync software to keep them mirrored.
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small 100/15 connection
I would love to be able to get half of that... or just a quarter of it really...
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Could have been 1000/200 for half the price if the house made a deal with a different ISP… =(
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But that's incredibly insecure and doing so basically relinquishes your control over your own data. Unless its your own personal NAS cloud, in which case I don't see much benefit over physical data storage outside of accessibility, you're basically entrusting your private data to the corporation or institution which owns, controls, and operates the cloud.
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I don't have any reason to be paranoid of whether they read the files I have there or not.
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You don't have to be in order to still take the appropriate privacy and security precautions. For example, if any sensitive data you'd rather not share, or incriminating data that you may unwittingly possess, is uploaded onto those clouds, you no longer have the ability to prevent anyone from viewing them. In the case of incriminating material, that could lead to criminal charges, even if you didn't knowingly commit a crime or if the material was planted in your data. With some cloud services, such as Microsoft OneDrive, your files are regularly scanned by its software and automatically uploaded to the cloud (and its hash files are regularly reported to Microsoft). If at any point you download illegal content, or someone else does on that computer, you could face serious legal repercussions.
It's much safer and prudent to not deprive yourself of control over your own data and give such invasive access to corporations, enterprises which inherently don't have your best interests in mind. Even if you are the most squeaky-clean goody two-shoes and never even pirate a single song, you may nevertheless unwittingly receive illegal content from a friend, acquaintance, or colleague. Moreover, someone could also easily hack into your cloud server and use it for illegal activities (or their legal activities might expose themselves to illegal content).
It's up to you to use whatever cloud service you want, but I would personally be hesitant of using them and discourage others from using them, as well.
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Well… even if I had pirated stuff there, thing is: it is legal to download anything here. Including copyrighted material. It is even expected, as all storage devices from DVDs to HDDs have an additional fee built into their price that goes to the company that handles copyright fee distribution in the country. (In theory. In practise most copyright holders never saw them paying anything. But they are the legally sanctioned to collect these fees for this purpose. And yes, I'm from Eastern Europe.)
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Hungary's internet piracy laws permit possession and downloading of pirated content? Well, I'm pretty sure that's an exception to the rule internationally, especially in the United States and western Europe. If you were to live in the United States, for example, would you be so unconcerned?
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Downloading copyrighted material is legal in more countries than where it is not. In Europe the only place I know where downloading is illegal is Germany.
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Really? Then my understanding of this issue is very inaccurate. Do you have any source on that claim? If I'm indeed wrong, I'd very much like to know.
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One needs to do their own research on country-by-country basis, but here is an article that lists a few good examples, including Canada: http://www.best-bittorrent-vpn.com/-safest-countries-to-download-torrents.html
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According to this article, the only countries listed are Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, and Russia, though recent changes to Swiss law has complicated the matter in Switzerland. The research I had previously done, which informed my original position, seems to be consistent with the information I'm seeing now, namely that the majority of countries in the world outlaw the downloading of copyrighted material without a license or purchase. Unless I can find a more comprehensive list (and Wikipedia's list isn't very clear on the matter), it seems that the laws that Hungary and others have are the exception.
Regardless, my point was that there are many countries in the world, most notably the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany, where digital piracy is illegal even with downloading content. At least in those countries, it would be even more unwise to use a public cloud than in countries like Hungary and Netherlands, and arguably enough of a concern to avoid cloud technology altogether. The threat level may be lower for you, given your location and the circumstances of your Internet activity, but I would personally consider that to be exceptional to the rule.
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I store everything on my computer, but I also have a 2TB caviar green connected which is shared on wan, so other people store data on it as well. by other people I mean my girlfriend, and by data I mean the TV shows she downloads tho ^^, so I picked single computer
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I have a desktop with 4 drives in it and a laptop, no file sharing needed. The desktop may be on 24/7 but that does not give me confidence, so I'm thinking (for a long time, I admit) to build a RAID 1 NAS. I chose Multiple+NAS and who knows, when I reach the 21st century, as talgaby did, I may succeed! 8)
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What prevents you from using RAID1 in your desktop? You don't need a dedicated NAS for this.
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I'd like to be able to shutdown the PC once in a while, and my files to be available if I need them. Also for in-home DLNA streaming! Once you discover DLNA, you never go back!
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People always think, that RAID is a backup...
RAID != BACKUP
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On my main-computer, on a NAS and in the cloud (mega.nz)
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Scattered around 3 computers, (1 main station, 2 laptops), laptops acessing shared folders located at main station via local network, also 3 external 1TB drives for backup purposes.
I plan to do NAS for years, but I'm too lazy ass to finally do it ;p
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Local copy on my computer.
Backup copy on an external HDD.
Backup copy of more important files on Dropbox.
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I've got two multi-disk enclosures connected to a headless mini PC connected to our home network. It also runs ASF and WinAuth, fondly remembering the time I got a 60GB disk and thought 'Wow, I can never fill this in my lifetime!'
For important small-size data I keep one copy on my Google Drive and several more on various flashdisks I have scattered around my room probably.
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Single computer + NAS + 3 external HDD
I also use cloud services for some things (Amazon Prime Photo for RAW files for example)
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Single computer with SSD and HDD, SSD for high usage stuff (games mostly), HDD for music, movies and crap like that. I don't really have any data that's vulnerable and not retrievable, since all the programming stuff is in repos anyway ^^
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But what if worst case scenario happens? In the end aren't all files located on hdd somewhere?
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Thinking this way, you could also expect your external HDD to suddenly fail or get destroyed by something :P
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But it could :). In fact I've had hdd that failed suddenly with no warning signs.
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Yeah, that's why it would be best to keep the copies both in the Cloud and on an additional hard drive. However, with current replication and backup rules for the cloud storages and repos I don't really expect to lose my data and even if I did, the responsibility lies with the service provider :P
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I have a computer not connected to the internet where i have a back up of stuff.
I also have an external hard drive as a double for that.
Non-sensitive stuff is stored in drop-box/google drive (spare account not used for email, not linked.)
Real documents (as in paper, etc) are scanned onto that offline computer. I store them in a safe/safe deposit box.
Work in a bank and an archive so various methods in both places.
As for stuff for school, cloud storage so I can access on phone or tablet.
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I have a server dedicated to run some scripts & for storage. Most of my files are local but I backup over the LAN weekly.
I didn't vote for Dan Quayle this time :)
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Dual weekly back-up on two WD My Books 4TB using Acronis True Image 2016.
I don't trust cloud services.
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Everything is on my laptop and backups on a usb flash drive and external hdd. Depending on what the file is and how important it is I sometimes have an extra backup on my phone or send it through remote control to a protected hdd on my old computer which stays pretty much turned on the whole day (my grandparents are using it as a phone only to talk to family it has been pretty much customized to only have skype show up when you open it and nothing else since they don't even know how to use computers)
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Single computer, 14.25tb total between internal and external. altogether about 90% full.
Passed the check, but still on your naughty list.. someday I'll be forgiven. ;)
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Do I have any chance convincing you that Hitler did not have good intentions; that the Jews did not bring the holocaust upon themselves with their bad behavior; and that Israel does not commit genocide? If you're totally set in those believes, then unfortunately I don't think this day will come.
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I never actually said hitler had good intentions, that was someone else. I did say and stand by its not as cut and dry as hitler hated jews and set out to exterminate them, which woulld also encompass your second part of the question, and again I never said they brought it upon themselves, just that there is more to the accepted basic education most people are given on ww2 and the holocaust. As for the last part, I'd be willing to have a discussion on it with you, at any time, but I'd be hard convinced to change my mind on Israel's actions towards the palestines being genocidal.
I think the greater problem here is you think I am anti-semetic, which is genuinely not the case. I dont believe that I have any bias towards any race, gender, creed etc. I dont have many jewish friends, because frankly I dont have many friends at all, but I certainly wouldn't choose not to be friends with someone because they were jewish, or israeli for that matter. I judge people by their actions, individually. But, it's your blacklist, your giveaways, and your call on what you do with them. I didnt expect you to remove me just because I made an offhand comment if that makes any difference.
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I don't have NAS because I don't really see the benefit compared to adding more disks to my desktop computer (which is on 24x7), but I'd be happy to hear why this would be better.
NAS or a centralized dedicated fileserver can be beneficial over serving from a multi-use computer for a few reasons:
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If you have 3+ devices connecting in at the same time, a dedicated fileserver can handle things more smoothly and without any degradation to performance if the computer is being actively used for other tasks. This probably isn't so much a problem unless you have a large family that is quite active with digital media or some sort of special-use scenario.
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Most NAS setups consume much less power than the average multi-purpose desktop build. If leaving these things on 24/7 for the express purpose of file serving or some sort of lightweight tasks then the power savings can add up to be fairly significant over time. Also, you can make your own NAS setup pretty cheaply these days, just buying some old desktop/HTPC hardware and putting a bit of time into the setup/configuration.
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Fileserver OSes like FreeNAS have a lot of built-in features and optimized plugins for both maintaining as well as serving your files (stuff like media streaming/encoding, WAN hosting, etc), and does so fairly painlessly through easy to access browser interfaces. Most of this stuff can also be done on a full-scale desktop, but might be slightly harder to find or are less optimized, as well as consuming computer resources on a machine that isn't solely dedicated to file serving.
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This is very helpful. Thank you!
About power consumption, if my desktop is anyway powered 24x7, wouldn't adding another device (even an energy-efficient one) actually increase power consumption?
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Maybe you wouldn't need to power yout PC 24/7 if you had NAS
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I want it powered on when I'm not home, to be able to access files and applications. And I want it powered on when I'm home. I can probably turn it off for 4 or 5 hours a day when I'm asleep. Not sure it's worth the bother, especially if it's downloading stuff (which with Netflix becoming useless is likely to happen more and more).
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If you need your desktop on 24/7, then indeed adding a NAS would increase total power draw.
However, there may be some functions that you can let the NAS handle instead of your desktop. You can configure your NAS to serve files over internet so you can access it while away from home. Depending on the application, it may also be able to host/stream the application you need as well. The NAS can also encode and stream media on the fly, so it can act as like your own personal Netflix / streaming jukebox for when you are out and about.
Most NAS OS implementations also have plugins for download management / torrenting, so those can be running in the background on the NAS 24/7 without consuming any of your main computing resources.
The downsides are that it does take time to configure, experiment, setup -- but implementing NAS can actually be pretty inexpensive and might save you money in the long run re: power consumption. If one has the time/interest in exploring what NAS has to offer and whether it will fit your usage scenarios, it can pay off.
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For the sake of this poll, it's not important if your data is all on internal hard drives or if some of it is on external drives, but feel free to relate to this aspect in a comment.
Personally my data is scattered between multiple computers, with local network file sharing. I don't have NAS because I don't really see the benefit compared to adding more disks to my desktop computer (which is on 24x7), but I'd be happy to hear why this would be better.
O.GA
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