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  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•NAS decision paralysisEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Thanks for the notes on network storage access protocols!

    A big point of a NAS in my mind is to run some sort of redundancy, which means you will want to setup a RAID on the drives in the NAS

    Cool, thank you for that as well, and I was aware of that so I thought I would mention that in my previous comment. But I was specifically wondering if I could in fact just chuck them in as-is and it would be able to access the drives? Because like, they’re separate drives, right? How would that work in a non-RAID setup when accessing from another computer? Would they show up as separate drives? Is it at all possible?

  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•NAS decision paralysisEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    I’m new to NAS hardware and how it works.

    If I buy a NAS, say from Synology, would I be able to just chuck my existing EXT4 HDDs full of data in there and it’ll work? Maybe even one or two with different file systems? I’m not too worried about backups or RAID yet.

    What are the limitations of dedicated NAS hardware? Can I also… “store” stuff on there? Like, say, have a “schmorrent” 🏴‍☠️ client save “data” directly to the drives from another computer on the network? Or do all services interacting with the data storage need to run on the NAS hardware?

  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Mail provider current status?
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    7 hours ago

    https://mailfence.com/

    One more second of searching. 🤷‍♂️

    Look, I made a comment on your comment, just to be informative, and that’s a purpose that adds something. You can say it’s not all you want, but somebody might find it informative to know that those two aren’t the only options.

    It really does sound like you took it personally, I’m sorry, but it does.

    I’m just saying to anyone reading your top level comment: “other options are available”. I know this post is asking for recommendations, but recommendations should be in top level comments then, IMO.

    You’d think someone would be happy to learn that there are more options. 🙄