NAS Setup

Ardennes1944

Hi all,

Basically im looking at setting up a storage system in our house as I am constantly mislaying SD cards and losing videos and photos from cool experiences.
Ideally I am looking for a NAS system (I think) for storing short videos and photos from DSLR, GoPro and phones automatically. Ideally this would happen automatically as soon as I am connected to the home network with either my phone(and its SD card) as well as when I insert an SD card into my laptop.

Would a NAS in RAID 1 be suitable? I am not looking at much data storage and 1TB would last for quit some time. There are WD Single Bay 2tb clouds for what seems like a reasonable price but he reviews of such arent particulary positive.

Or does something like Google Drive make more sense?

Thanks in advance.

unkel

Aye. I wouldn't bother with a NAS if 1TB is all your storage requirements (for now). Both Google Drive and OneDrive can automatically upload photo / video from your phone to your cloud account as soon as you're on wifi (anywhere in the world) or even on your data connection if you let them. I've no experience with GoPro in this regard, but I think they do have wifi sharing options.

ED E

NAS = Single Point of Failure.

If your budget allows for NAS + Offsite service, do that. If not, just pay Dropbox/Google/MS/Amazon for a cloud service.

degsie

The advantage of having a NAS is that if anything happens to your online storage you will always have a local copy.

But as always if you value your media then remember the 3-2-1 rule!