Article: A Digital Audio Drawback - Music Storage Delicacy, Compatibility, and Longevity

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On 8/25/2024 at 9:21 PM, The Computer Audiophile said:

This made me think of two things. 
 

1. A new business where people store their backup NAS and pay a small rental fee to keep it there for offsite backup. 
2. Why is it so dang expensive - $450 per month on sites that already have the infrastructure? 

i am thinking about buying a new NAS in the same size and storing in a friends place. we do share the same provider with 1Gb symmetrical links. So this should be solution. I agree is it so damn expensive with cloud backup. I am working for a outsourcer and maintain the network part but that’s different business. Datacenter equipment with all things around it has another pricetag. 

13 hours ago, Me2 said:

i am thinking about buying a new NAS in the same size and storing in a friends place. we do share the same provider with 1Gb symmetrical links. So this should be solution. I agree is it so damn expensive with cloud backup. I am working for a outsourcer and maintain the network part but that’s different business. Datacenter equipment with all things around it has another pricetag. 

My Brother and I share space on each others NAS as well and it works great. I guess this could mean I don't necessarily need Backblaze, but it gives me more piece of mind.

You may want to check these guys hardware out, made to last and made for home users. I have an HL15.

https://45homelab.com/

8 hours ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

My Brother and I share space on each others NAS as well and it works great. I guess this could mean I don't necessarily need Backblaze, but it gives me more piece of mind.

 

You may want to check these guys hardware out, made to last and made for home users. I have an HL15.

 

https://45homelab.com/

This is interesting thing. The price and components looking good. You need a rack where you can mount it and that’s difficult if you don’t have house with enough space. Furthermore you need the knowledge to bring this all together with software and hardware. I can do that but i doubt that everyone here can.

6 hours ago, Me2 said:

This is interesting thing. The price and components looking good. You need a rack where you can mount it and that’s difficult if you don’t have house with enough space. Furthermore you need the knowledge to bring this all together with software and hardware. I can do that but i doubt that everyone here can.

You don't need a rack at all. 45Homelab also makes smaller devices.

Great article to remind us. I was one of them that stored my music to a back up USB drive. After about 5-7years are so … one day the drive stopped working and my iMac crashed. I lost about 10+ years of music in a day. 
 

Yes hopefully the cloud is more reliable. We have no control o we tidal and quboz formats and quality. Today it might be great, tomorrow it might be good and if they have less profit I am sure it will be some new format that is of poor quality.  I already see several version of songs in tidal. Who is to say they will continue to offer the options in the future 

If you do host your data yourself then  often people do not think about a backup strategy of let`s say important Data. Disk may fail even SSD or USB Sticks. So what is needed? A reliable and tested Backup on other Storage. For long term storage we use Tape Backup in our DC but this is expensive. I think about a second NAS for Backup because i have around 50 Tb of Music and Movies but this is a investment. I also thougt about to use Cloud Storage, but this is definitive to expensive.