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New to NAS
Hi there. I am new to the topic of NAS and have a couple of questions. Recently, a couple of months ago, My Windows PC fell victim to ransomware, Some data, photos/music/videos/etc, were lost and som...
The ~40% figure would be assuming the worst case scenario where all the files are encrypted.
If you mainly have huge files (e.g. multiple GB files) then ransomware tends to skip those, but rather focus on the smaller files such as e.g. music, photos, word & excel documents, video clips (that are smaller in size) that are faster to encrypt. However ransomware is constantly evolving so that may change.
It's also worth noting that some use cases are more suited to using snapshots than others. So they may be appropriate for some shares on your NAS and not for others.
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