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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
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I've gotten pretty skeptical about the real advantages of NAS for home use. You could get any number of low cost PCs used or new and just jack in some external drives, and you'd be surprised... LVM allows for multivolume "drives" these days, and while I can't speak to longterm robustness, it is SO much cheaper than a NAS with internal drives, and your network is probably no faster than USB2... In terms of privacy, they're almost certainly hashing every file you send/receive, if not everything it stores, and possibly nmapping your network for marketing research like how Roombas phone home with your house layout.
Don't disagree with your post, I've gone that route too, but I have had a couple RAIDs crash over the decades and dashing to a computer store and slapping drives from a dead box to a new one got me back up and running the quickest.
I can totally build a server with my spare parts lying around, but my system doesn't care when I have free time to tinker; assume it will fail at the worst possible time like the day you leave on vacation.
But yeah, if you're pinching pennies, build something fun and learn along the way. Frustration is the key to memory permanence. ๐