R-Pi 5 NAS Drive

[Chris Savage]

My first NAS drive was a WD unit that only had one drive. It just died one day, and at the time I had no backups (didn't have a spare USB drive that large. I lost videos of my daughters that are irreplaceable. So now, I have backups of everything. When it comes to NAS, I MUST have RAID 1 (Mirror). For a while that meant using smaller drives for cost reasons, but I am finally up to where I need to be for the media and files I need to backup.

[JKnightandKARR]

https://raspberrytips.com/nas-guide-raspberry-pi/
I saw this n didn't know if it would be helpful or not.

This looks like a good option for me. The mirrored (or any) RAID would be good, but I already have a five-, and an eight-terrabyte, external USB drive available, but no decent-sized NVMe drives - and those SSDs cost a bit too much. My NAS will be just for my personal use, and I will still have the 8 TB drive with all my movies, and TV shows, separate on my TV system, so I don't really need much in the way of speed, or power. Thinking about this, the 5 TB drive should be on my NAS, and the 8 TB should be as a backup drive - maybe on Spock, or maybe just plugged in to my main computer, as needed.

I will be using the two Pi computers that I purchased after our meetup (one Pi 4, and one Pi 5) for the two projects. One will be Spock (he was in charge of the library on the Enterprise) and will be the NAS. The other will be replacing Nyota (the Enterprise's Communications officer) who will be handling all of my Internet access - SSH server, VPN-in server (although that may be my router's job,) maybe web servers and anything else. After writing this down, it seems that Nyota will not be doing as much as I thought; so the Pi 4 will run Nyota, and the Pi 5 will run Spock.

Sounds good. I outta copy EVERYthing I got onto my 4TB drive and go over it alL, cause I know I got multiple copies of some stuff and copies of crap i don't need!

[Chris Savage]

I know I got multiple copies of some stuff and copies of crap i don't need!

Story of my life. 

EDIT: I solved my duplicate photos / images problems by having a photo dump folder. Whenever I transfer from my phone, files that exist cause that error and I can skip. If I've already moved them from that folder, they're caught in my sorted photos drive, since everything is sorted by date. Doesn't work with everything, but it does help with photos.

[JKnightandKARR]

I know I got multiple copies of some stuff and copies of crap i don't need!

Story of my life. 

EDIT: I solved my duplicate photos / images problems by having a photo dump folder. Whenever I transfer from my phone, files that exist cause that error and I can skip. If I've already moved them from that folder, they're caught in my sorted photos drive, since everything is sorted by date. Doesn't work with everything, but it does help with photos.

I know the feeling... NO idea how much I really have... but a whole lot of 2+ copies..