My NAS has built in support for all of this by default. Simply put multiple drives in and press Go. The NAS does the rest. It is that easy. I never worry about the integrity of my files. I once had a drive go bad and I received a text message that one of my disks had a problem. I simply pulled it out and installed a new one. I was done.
RAID is not a backup.
Correct. I use raid 0 and run automatic backups to a backup disk.
Yeah but in case of fire or tornado you're screwed unless you have an offsite backup.
The NAS has remote backup capability. I don't use that particular feature, but it's there. My point is, you can buy a NAS that does everything the cloud does for a one time fee. I swear by it. There is even a mobile app that allows you to easily move files back and forth.
Doesn't protect against destruction of NAS.
That or a nuclear blast.
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