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Slow Blue Light of Death
I have ReadyNAS Duo (no version), which I have had for years. During a recent storm we lost power which has happened before. Unfortunately this time when I turned the NAS back on the blue power ligh...
It's possible you could accidentally delete a file (would be immediately deleted from both disks), you could have multiple failures and a range of other issues, as well as fire, flood and theft.
Businesses use RAID in their servers and still backup their data.
If you only store irreplaceable/important data on one device then you are taking a big risk.
A few cheap USB disks rotated off-site, another NAS with the first backup on-site and subsequent backups to the NAS over the Internet to a remote location (e.g. to house occupied by parent/sibling/child depending on what suits you - you could even arrange to backup their files back to your place), backup of important data to the cloud are all good suggestions.
With 500GB disks currently in your NAS it shouldn't cost you that much to implement a backup solution.
Preferably you should have at least 3 copies of important/irreplaceable data including the primary copy.
Businesses use RAID in their servers and still backup their data.
If you only store irreplaceable/important data on one device then you are taking a big risk.
A few cheap USB disks rotated off-site, another NAS with the first backup on-site and subsequent backups to the NAS over the Internet to a remote location (e.g. to house occupied by parent/sibling/child depending on what suits you - you could even arrange to backup their files back to your place), backup of important data to the cloud are all good suggestions.
With 500GB disks currently in your NAS it shouldn't cost you that much to implement a backup solution.
Preferably you should have at least 3 copies of important/irreplaceable data including the primary copy.
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