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Originally Posted by W9TR
What’s the cost of cloud storage per TB? What service are you using?
I chose 1 drive redundancy because I figured the probability of two HDD failures within a short time was lower than the whole NAS going kabang. But I could be mistaken.  |
I am using MSOne Drive. I get 1TB for free included with Office 365 so it is a bundled price. You can pay for extra storage.
Google Drive and Dropbox are other options for cloud storage.
The thing with the NAS is that typically all hard drives are the same age when you first install the NAS. I had one drive fail and when I replaced it I noticed that all other drives were in bad shape (the NAS can tell you the condition of each drive). When one replaces a damaged drive, it can take many hours (days?) for the NAS to get back to normal. That means that during that process all drives will be working overtime shuffling data around. And that is a dangerous time for another drive to fail.