I stash my second janky NAS with my family in another part of the country. I ask my sibling to keep it powered on every week or so then shut it down after a couple minutes. If my main data storage near the capital city goes kaput, I'd phone my sibling to bring me my entire NAS (all expenses paid) immediately. My main stash is in my office which is only 10' commute
KreyserYukine
joined 1 year ago
Get an SBC (Orange Pi or Raspi), Radxa SATA HAT, spare router plus extra LAN cables, and a handful of SATA HDD. Hardware cost...let's just put it at 300-ish USD. Electric cost, let's just put it at double digit (at worst, low triple digit) kWh per month. I started out with an external HDD which downs me about 120 USD a couple years ago
Kinda-sorta...? The most sensitive data was more like 5-3-1: 5 copies (in my twin laptops, in my HDD-based NAS, one in my mobile external HDD, and one 'offsite' with my family back in my hometown). Then for my work data it was 3-2-1: main laptop, my NAS backup, and offsite (updated every holiday). For entertainment which are mostly loot from the seven seas, 2.5-1 rule: I stash bulk of them in my NAS (which I mostly stream to my laptop) and copy what I need to share with folks to the mobile HDD) and the other copy is also offsite