Why YOU Should Replace Your External Hard Drives with a NAS

If you're still using traditional hard drives to back up your data, here are 5 reasons why you should switch to using a Network Attached Storage (NAS) instead.

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[placesonthelist]

I bought my Synology NAS in 2020. Spent a lot of my lockdown converting all of my DVD's, VHS tapes, CDs, records and photo negatives to digital format and set up Plex. I also store all of my photography by year and trip. It was a lot of work but now they are all in one place. The drives are in Raid and I just added a usb backup drive.

[dell]

Great video, however I would add. Using a NAS box as your primary means of backup is risky. If the box fails or something kills both drives in the box (like a power surge), you are going to be in a bad place. I have a 2 disk Synology DS720+ and it's a great device and it's so convenient to have all of your media accessible across the network. However, if the box fails I am in deep, deep trouble. I have a 4 TB external SSD to back up the full contents of my NAS and for my most important files, like my photos, I also backup to Google drive. In my opinion, backing up your NAS and using cloud storage is probably the most robust solution to backing up. Great video, and wonderful content.

[TruckFan]

I would personally not use Seagate drives. They may be cheaper, but have been and still are prone to failure. I would use WD Red instead.

[arosado]

Great and nice job. Will be waiting for the dedicated review, I also have too many drives and will like to updated. Thanks for the information.

[YTFPV]

Been filming a lot more drone video and i am debating on G RAID MIROR or NAS but i also need something fast enough so i can work of it is NAS will be fast enough ?

[stephensears]

My synology NAS with WD red plus drives has worked flawlessly since 2018. Remote access is sometimes a little slow with 2FA enabled, but Id rather be safe than sorry. I also trust Synology’s C2 for automatic, nightly backups, where 3TB costs about the same as a pro dropbox account. The difference is dropbox uses up my computer’s hard drive space.

[DeKapitein]

Power Supply backup UPS. Saves you allot of headaches when your NAS gets a power outages while you write to the disks.

[JuanCamacho]

Can you use it to back up your Mac, along with using it as an external hard drive?

[m.sabir]

Is not better to use commercially available online cloud systems? I am currently using individual hard drives, i had one Hard disk of 2Tb and other similar to back it up on monthly basis. I am planning to move on commercial on-line cloud service. What is the point keeping a cow at home for milk, when we can buy milk from market? What you recommend, using the on-line cloud system rather than the private NAS system?

[RonaldBrown]

This is great information, thanks for sharing.

[darrinlong]

i want to do this with my tplink usb router i want to access my external drives from anywhere.

[uspmasta]

Just curious on what cloud service you use to backup so much data. I currently have carbonite but find it limited with trying to view video’s I transferred onto it.

[arnoldlayne]

where is the dedicated NAS video? i was hoping to learn more about its use and features...

[iamsailingau]

Great video, nice overview of why we should all use a NAS

[LiamPhotoATL]

Actually for better protection you want a NAS that holds several drives at once and set then up in RAID10 so if one drive fails you don’t lose anything.

[dave]

That's my plan, getting a NAS solution. Thanks for the video. Now, just gotta convince my boss (wife) to spend the big bucks!

[degu]

I was going to buy a NAS and shortlisted the WD Home cloud. Then they got hacked and discontinued the service! So I looked at another service but apparently, they are cutting back their service from May or June this year so you cant access the NAS over the web. It sounds like these services are not safe or no longer reliable.
I therefore put a 1TB internal drive in my PC and wrote a batch file to back up my important files at startup. So I have the original on the PC and a backup on the 1TB SSD drive. Thankfully I only have a few gig to backup. It is not accessible over the net but other services seem to be removing this feature.

[Officialmorpheus]

does that drive need to be connected 24/7? Can you also disconnect it from the socket if you don't need it temporarily to save energy?

[julianramirez]

But how much is one n which is better for u 12 tb or nas because right know i am paying for icloud $9.99 if u can let me know which one is better thanks

[Donbros]

But hdd are cheaper ngl. I am also thinking about it but price is rough. Also i would need like 8 bays minimal ngl. Also you have always have it to be turned on