There isn't many, as stupid as it may sound, I keep burning CD/DVD/BluRay and piling up external drives.
Yes, it is a pain versus having a NAS, but at least I don't have to deal with this kind of stuff.
There isn't many, as stupid as it may sound, I keep burning CD/DVD/BluRay and piling up external drives.
Yes, it is a pain versus having a NAS, but at least I don't have to deal with this kind of stuff.
Are you sure they survive for the time period you intend them to? When I was a teenager, I though the DVDs and BluRays I burned would be forever - 15 years later I am very unhappy to find that some of them started to crack and flay - it's a pain to keep checking them. Nothing like the guarantees a NAS + Cloud backup could provide.
NAS also fail, and cloud backups can be taken away without notice.
Hence why multiple copies.
sure, but NAS and cloud doesn't fail at the same time. Also NAS provide some redundancy in-house as well. Whereas BluRay is a single copy - even if you burn multiple copies, they degrade at the same rate.
That would be true if I would have done all copies on the same day, and never duplicated disks.
You basically imply that you have a NAS that you regularly take backups to BluRay?
I’m a fan of optical storage and its durability (with reasonable care.)
But the problem is when you need to recover and have 20 Blu-ray Discs with important data scattered about, it takes days.
Or when there is a specific piece of data you want/need and only have a vague idea of where it is/was in history. Maybe if those ultra capacity discs took hold but it looks like the era of optical is ending
Same applies to NAS, how many hours have you spent clicking around shared folders on company NAS / cloud storage, to track down where a specific set of files are actually located?
Search isn't helpful if the stuff wasn't properly indexed.
Sure, but clicking through a folder set on a single managed volume is orders of magnitude easier than rooting through a hundred blue ray DVDs, popping each one into your optical reader in the hopes that it is the correct one, and then having to search within that volume.
> Search isn't helpful if the stuff wasn't properly indexed
Synology indexes file contents similar to Spotlight on the Mac.
rgrep is easier on a nas though