Which Personal Cloud?

[NYT]

that unit doesnt come with hdds, you will need to buy whatever drives the unit supports.

[Bangzoom]

that unit doesnt come with hdds, you will need to buy whatever drives the unit supports.

As stated...I am willing to buy Diskless..No I dont have to buy any...I have a box full of them

[MaHoTex]

Yeah its too bad im a not a bit more confident in my networking knowledge because I do have some small nice servers.....If I knew more I could make something but my brain is kinda full having to know other things right now...lol

My nephew is very good at this...he is the IT guy at a large insurance business and said he will be my support if I need it

Im eyeballing this unit...a tad more money though

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

That is an excellent choice. I have the previous version of that and it is awesome. Here is the comparison to the model I have:

https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/compare/DS216j/DS115j

Get a couple of 8TB drives, plug them in and get going. You will be glad you went this route.

[Bangzoom]

That is an excellent choice. I have the previous version of that and it is awesome. Here is the comparison to the model I have:

https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/compare/DS216j/DS115j

Get a couple of 8TB drives, plug them in and get going. You will be glad you went this route.

Ive been wondering ...with this unit how does the person im sharing a file with access it remotely? do they need an app? or do i just give them an ip addy? or.....??

[MaHoTex]

Ive been wondering ...with this unit how does the person im sharing a file with access it remotely? do they need an app? or do i just give them an ip addy? or.....??

In the setup you get a synology ID (really a DNS name) that allows it to be accessed. Also, there is a cloud application that can be installed on the remote system which is an easy way to add/access your "cloud". I have only used the remote maint part and the myCloud application. I have not tried to map a remote directory using the DNS.

[NYT]

As stated...I am willing to buy Diskless..No I dont have to buy any...I have a box full of them

they come diskless. this is why i said "you will need to buy whatever disks the enclosure supports".

[MaHoTex]

they come diskless. this is why i said "you will need to buy whatever disks the enclosure supports".

I would suggest 2 identical drives as large as you can afford and set them to Raid 1.

[odysseus]

What is the intent of a 4 Drive system over a 2 drive system? Is it simply for double the storage? Would you essentially have 2 drive pairs set as Raid 1, or do you stripe them and have one large setup as an array?

The reason is because why take on the effort and footprint cost to buy an enclosure and NAS system so you only mirror 2 drives (effectively just 1 drive with minimum failure support)? You don't need to buy a NAS really for that, and you then don't get features of expandable RAID, multi-drive i/o, hot spare, etc.

That is a preference I would set. Of course there are people that will buy a 2 drive NAS, and vendors will make some versions to sell them, but really I don't recommend it by default. A lot of people for themselves under estimate it at the start and then have some regrets because they can't expand. Get a 4 bay at a minimum.

[NYT]

i would just get a cheap 2 tb hdd for local storage and backup to amazon drive.

unlimited storage for $60 year.

[ct4surf]

I ran a 5-Disk Synology NAS cloud for a year, it was great. Listen to the guy above who said multidisk system. At minimum, you want mirrored disks to protect your data.

Good storage will cost you about triple your budget all said and done...I'd save more money and do it right, or buy a public cloud like BOX or Google drive.

[gorn5150]

I did it the easy way. I plugged a 4TB USB drive into my wifi router. I map it on the network and store all the digital movies and tv shows I have on it.