Help me with buying NAS

[NotAllThere]

I’m late to this conversation but the all important question is were the hardware on the NAS to die can you pull the disk out of the machine and then easily access the data on the disk

Not if it's using striping.

I have the NAS die. I replaced it, installed the disks from the previous one and the RAID array built nicely.

[sadkingbilly]

. Both devices are in my nuclear bunker.

I do have another Synology NAS sitting in my (unused) chimney stack.

what IS the point of the swissie's nuclear bunkers???

[ladymuck]

what IS the point of the swissie's nuclear bunkers???

So they can survive the fallout and continue hoovering up all the gold

[sadkingbilly]

So they can survive the fallout and continue hoovering up all the gold

so they can eat gold??
why would anyone want to survive in a nuclear winter??
i'd rather be at ground zero, personally. instant translation into a cloud of incandescent gas.

[NotAllThere]

why would anyone want to survive in a nuclear winter??

Better skiing. Have you seen snow conditions over the last few years?

[ChimpMaster]

I’m late to this conversation but the all important question is were the hardware on the NAS to die can you pull the disk out of the machine and then easily access the data on the disk

and the one thing the page regarding the NAS doesn’t tell me is what file format is used for the disk - I.e. whether I can pull the disk out plug it in elsewhere and read it.

Beyond that I have a rather expensive machine running UNRAID so I’m not going to recommend cheap options I wouldn’t myself use

The marketing spiel looks like you can plug and play any 3.5" HDD and even SSDs but I won't be using those for this. The 2 NAS disks will be further backed up onto my main PC, and again on an external USB HDD. So in effect I will have multiple backups overall.

The main purpose of the NAS is to shared access of data/media between my family. And of course as one-of-several backups.