02-28-2020, 03:37 PM
Hi,
I have a small home business and looking to replace my external USB drives with a more reliable backup and filesharing solution. I only have about 400GB of actual business related data on 2 external drives: one contains the original data and the second is a backup.
I also looking into occasional remote access of this data by a part time employee.
I would like as well to use this NAS to hold my about 200 GB personal photo collection which I can access from my personal iMac. I use a Windows 10 laptop for business.
And finally, I would like to use a cloud based backup using my iCloud (500GB) or/and OneDrive account (1TB).
Should I go for a 2 or more bay NAS? I understand that with only a two bay enclosure, I don't get redundancy in case of disk failure. My budget is limited to about 300CAD for the NAS without the disks.
I appreciate your advice.
Cheers!
I have a small home business and looking to replace my external USB drives with a more reliable backup and filesharing solution. I only have about 400GB of actual business related data on 2 external drives: one contains the original data and the second is a backup.
I also looking into occasional remote access of this data by a part time employee.
I would like as well to use this NAS to hold my about 200 GB personal photo collection which I can access from my personal iMac. I use a Windows 10 laptop for business.
And finally, I would like to use a cloud based backup using my iCloud (500GB) or/and OneDrive account (1TB).
Should I go for a 2 or more bay NAS? I understand that with only a two bay enclosure, I don't get redundancy in case of disk failure. My budget is limited to about 300CAD for the NAS without the disks.
I appreciate your advice.
Cheers!