Hello. Noob just joined, but been lurking for a week. Amazing how much I’ve learnt - particularly grateful to jgreco and cyberjock + guide.
After a two commercial (home) NAS failures I’ve lost faith in off the shelf solutions (QNAP & Synology) that I can’t really fix myself. Fortunately I’m pretty good at backups. But the worst bit is that after a few days reading I’m deeply shocked how I’ve been living at risk of bit rot all this time; in fact I’ve seen corruption in a few jpegs over the decades and never knew why. I’m only a home user, but keeping my data safe is important to me. So, I’m going to try FreeNAS, with ECC RAM, after reading some very well written justifications on this forum.
My only worry is that I’m going to be able to learn enough to stay safe. I’m just about comfortable with the command line, and I’m eager to learn. Hopefully that’ll be enough, since I can never go back to ignorance!
After a two commercial (home) NAS failures I’ve lost faith in off the shelf solutions (QNAP & Synology) that I can’t really fix myself. Fortunately I’m pretty good at backups. But the worst bit is that after a few days reading I’m deeply shocked how I’ve been living at risk of bit rot all this time; in fact I’ve seen corruption in a few jpegs over the decades and never knew why. I’m only a home user, but keeping my data safe is important to me. So, I’m going to try FreeNAS, with ECC RAM, after reading some very well written justifications on this forum.
My only worry is that I’m going to be able to learn enough to stay safe. I’m just about comfortable with the command line, and I’m eager to learn. Hopefully that’ll be enough, since I can never go back to ignorance!