Aria

Finally got my NAS setup

Just cloning my google drive to finally abandon it!

6tb raid 1 (12tb raw)
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Jul 22, 2025 at 12:28pmWeb
Show threadlbnvdsJul 22, 2025
@aria I’ve been wanting to do this for ages. If you don’t mind sharing, what is the biggest positive and negative you think there is to this local storage setup?
Show threadAriaJul 22, 2025

@lbnvds the biggest positive? Full control, only I decide what I store on here and no one, well, almost, no one can stop me

the biggest negative?

price and maintenace

I have one of the cheaper setups since I got my hard drives for completely free

but assuming you can't do what I did, this setup would still cost you at least £250 (about $300)

Show threadlbnvdsJul 22, 2025
@aria Fair, I think the positive that you mention here outweighs the negative by a lot. Thanks for sharing!
Show threadAriaJul 22, 2025
@lbnvds for example, sometimes Google drive marks ISOs (for example my ISO for a windows XP beta build) as malware and stops you from sharing them, if you use a NAS, that won't happen
Show threadAhri EnbyJul 23, 2025
@aria please remember to add alt text to images next time. It's recommended to help visually impaired Fedi users guide what's inside the image.