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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I have a NAS array on the home network that both my wife and I use for lots of different things, including ebooks. Every once in a while (meaning whenever I remember), it gets backed up to a DVD-R.
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Take care with a NAS. I used to use a Buffalo NAS. RAID 5, so I thought I was safe enough - after all, what are the odds of 2 drives in the array failing?
After about a year, the NAS box itself failed. The drives were fine - it was the motherboard on the NAS which had died. The unit had a 2-year warranty, so I thought that I was OK. I phoned Buffalo's tech support, only to be told that they couldn't send me a replacement "empty" NAS box that I could put my (perfectly OK) drives into; I had to send them back my complete NAS unit, and they'd send me a replacement - not with my drives in, but with new drives. In other words, there was no way for me to get my data back.
Luckily, I had a friend who had the same type of NAS, so I put my drives into his NAS box, and was able to copy all my data onto an external USB hard disk, but that experience made me very wary of NAS boxes - of Buffalo in particular.