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Well this one has basically what othera like Synology or Asustor have. But this is 1K price for cpu that you might not even need, if all you want is cloud like storage, nextcloud and media server. Something like that others have around 400usd. Feels like too much for not so much. Marketing ia atrong with this one
you should have a million subs in no time. Also this sponsored content actually is pretty good lol as far as they go. Its surprisingly informative honestly - everyone should host their own NAS if they need a few more than 1 terrabyte
Wouldn't stop them. I swear, some of the ad-reads I've seen, it almost as if Raid's publisher encourages shit-talking their game. It's very much a quantity-over-quality strategy.
It's really not that bad. I think I pay $10/mo for 2 TB in cloud. At $200 per spinning rust device I'll stick with iCloud. Besides, NAS on Apple is highly unintuitive.
I decommissioned my old gaming rig and stuck a bunch of drives its mATX case. Installed OpenMediaVault and run Nextcloud and Plex in containers on the resulting NAS. What you get from a device like the Cube is ease of use. If you're technical you can do the same thing for less though.
You just need to have more cubes. Spread them out around the world to your friends. Or hide one at the office. Will say though this is quite a stack of money. Not sure it’s worth the 1100$ USD. If you don’t need fancy trays you can buy a used dell or HP tower with a i5 9600, a used rtx 3060, 4x 8tb drives, and an extra 16gb of ram. Truenas will do the same job.
Sam, you're like me, still clinging to your MP3 library, and hence my using a 2017 Android phone: headphone jack, SD card slot,(and absence of my personal hate, punch hole/camera notch)
4:33 No Sam, RAID is not a backup. RAID1 is just for redundancy, but if the data gets corrupted somehow it's not gonna save you without proper backups.
RAID-1 is full "mirroring". If one disk fails, the second disk is a 100% copy. Useful if you only have two drives -- but you can use more disks for more 100% mirrored backups. You may be thinking of RAID-0: aka "striping". Good for performance, but if any one disk fails, you lose the entire array. Then see RAID 5/6 which allow for more disk failures before data loss.
@@beepbop6697 No, I'm talking about RAID1. RAID0 is useless and should never be used. But guess what happens if data corrupts silently in RAID. Or you delete a file. Or your NAS burns down in a house fire. Or it gets stolen. All these scenarios show that RAID is not a backup.
Well. First rule of backups -- backups should be off site! And this cloud providers have geo distributed backups of each item in cloud. But you got pay for this.
Very smart to use those super fast (caching) flash drives in the front -- this is "enterprise" stuff we were doing a decade+ ago (in my company) -- now in residential. Now I want to build my own NAS for my house. Great video!
I am a youtuber too but after I make videos I upload them and then delete them from my computer. The videos are stored on the youtube server for free and when I want to get the videos back I can just download them.
Umm...complete dependence on having a good internet connection seems a bit...risky. Some of us STILL have intermittent service. And what if RU-vid gives you the toss?
I do physically offline storage (two separate physical drives), on the premise that a disconnected drive has much less chance of being reached by ransomware or similar before it's discovered. Also the storage is in two different locations (I had fire once). Every couple days, or after new material is added (and also after the system scans clean by the antivirus) I plug in one of the systems and run the backup, disconnecting it as soon as it is finished.
@@MrPV94 Cloud providers often release statistical data related to HDD failure rate. This is usually based on tens of thousands HDDs. Last time I checked Seagate HDDs were sticking well above WD and Toshiba (in failure rate). WD Ultrastar series is currently the most reliable HDD you can find. Unfortunately, the price is not so friendly :) I use mostly Toshiba MG series designed for 24/7 operation (7200 speed and large 512MB cache), which is also reliable and much more affordable. Plus they offer 5 year warranty. In any case it is the most important to have them in RAID1 (or some other array configuration) and you can sleep peacefully.
if cloud icosts 3 stands: that's free real storage if icloud costs 3 apple products: just get a personal storage server so you get more for less, something that is considered unorthodox by Apple.
Danger Will Robinson! If this is your only backup then SAY NO TO RAID 5! You can only loose 1 drive before things get dicey, so it's not different from mirroring - a raid 5 array using 18tb drives will take ages to restore and in all the time you will have no other redundancy / backup. Add another drive and upgrade to a Raid 6 array. If you have another backup you can ignore this advice.
Servers are great to act as your own personal cloud but I recommend using a VPN to access your server remotely instead of exposing it directly though whatever software they provide. Usually it’s crap and has frequent global hacks
Bro I swear is there a company that can make a “not bad” drive? I’m legit almost asking for real 😂 I still rock a few lacies, glyphs, g-drives, and a mybook from …2005-10?damn!
@@thisaintart In my experience, WD drives were the most reliable. While I heard they made some Red (NAS-grade) drives that use SMR, instead of more reliable CMR, I never used them. WD Red Pro (they are CMR only, AFAIK) or Gold - should be fine.
Raid 5 (or 6) protects your data from hd failures. But you have no protection against other hardware failures (motherboard, disk controllers, power) or by mistakenly erasing your files. So you actually also need a backup of your cube (cloud or external hds)... 🙂
3:11 Philip Schofield: "Look, the bridge is gone. You're totally locked in." Forget the £250,000 jackpot, Apple would charge you that much. Sounds like something Apple would say once you buy their products.
Having your own storage system requires a expensive internet plan with heaps of upload bandwidth.. so it works out very expensive paying 130 a month in Australia
