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Hey guys ive been self hosting things for a while now mostly just off a bunch if old computers in a k8s cluster.

The majour issue i have currently is all my data is on a single hdd in an old dektop. Its painfully slow and very risky as i have no backup or anything (i dont feel to great about that).

I really dont have much $ to spend hence my setup is built from a stack of practically ewaste hobbled together. I finally have the $ to buy some drives how should i go about building myself a nas on the cheap?

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

For the money you'll spend on drives, you may be able to pay for a year of space at somewhere like www.storj.io, and use something like Duplicati to backup to them.

Because even with a shiny new NAS, you'll still need backup for it when it crashes, something is accidentally deleted, a drive hiccups and loses data, etc.

If you already have some stuff sitting around, spin up an UnRAID/TrueNAS, but still have a backup solution.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I might use some paid remote storage for an off site backup but i need something local as 0.6Mbps/s is about the best upload i can get without shilling out for starlink.