The entire contents of my video and audio libraries are on my NAS.
In the last 15 years I have experienced two laptop hard-disk failures.
Each of those disk failures wiped every file that was stored on my laptop off the face of the planet.
Audio files, video files, and all of my data.
Gone.
The first time it happened I just shrugged it off and put it down to a bad experience.
I was naive, eh?
About five years later it happened for the second time.
And for the second time in six years I was devastated at my loss.
Loss of data.
Loss of photographs.
Loss of video.
Loss of audio.
Loss of memories.
Some time, and quite a lot of money later, I had put myself in a position where such a failure would never wipe me out in such a devastating way again.
I had my NAS, and all of my data was on it.
The NAS comprised two 2xTB disks, RAIDed, backing a web front-end with local and remote access through secure authentication.
I had moved in to the world of private cloud storage.
The ultimate safety net.
About a year later the price of data storage technology dropped through the floor.
I bought a 2Tb USB external disk drive.
And plugged it in to my NAS.
This gave me an external backup facility, from which I could restore everything, just in case the RAIDed NAS disks failed.
