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I'm looking for a diskspace of possibly 1TB online

Edit: my idea is to use it like as an external harddisk for everyday stuff. Encrypt the disk, put my filesystem on it, mount it as external drive kinda. Never worry about backups or lost data etc, as the provider would take care of it

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[โ€“] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Depends for how long. Buying a used NAS with a single 1TB drive is probably cheaper over a 10 year period than subscribing to some cloud service for the same duration.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, interesting to see you back

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Wasn't there something with a LW community? Anyway, it doesn't matter so much

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean three drives? You need data integrity, what if a drive fails? What if you have a raid 1 but when readding a new drive you have read errors? Parity is good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good point. Perhaps at least a 2 drive NAS then. ๐Ÿ‘