Storing or backing up locally is the answer for me.

Last time I checked my ISP upload speeds I was in the neighbourhood of 0.6 Mbps.

So if you have a good upload, it should take you sooner to backup. I had about 1TB to back up on a 10Mbps upload - and it took a month or so to backup. Ironsmack wrote: ↑ Also, with Backblaze - your first initial backup will take a long, loooooooong time. A newer faster switch will go a long way in increasing my local network speeds. I was surprised to realize that the 'fast' 10/100 switch that has been serving me well for decades is now a bottleneck since almost everything I have is now gigabit. I took the opportunity to review everything that was on the network and looked at the speeds of every device both wired and wireless. This past weekend I put my new ix2 into its home my home network. It cost $1500+ to get that and some other file types back through a data recovery service. The types of files they backup is usually listed in one line buried in a 100+ page manual. Some of these units will only back up certain kinds of files. I learnt the hard way last year when I had a drive fail and went to recover my data from one of these one button USB drives. You also have to be careful with some of these 1 button backup solutions. The Drive you pointed to is a USB 3 drive, you might be able to connect it to your router (mine does not have USB) but it should be quicker if you connect it directly to your computer. This post speaks to the memory on a NAS and file transfers: nas-advice-1068965/2/#post13278665 Steeped wrote: ↑OK, dumb question: Why does the NAS need 256mb of memory? I thought I could buy a generic drive like this and hook it up to my router?

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