My NAS is feeling a bit cramped! Should I just add more hard drives or is it time to jump into the cloud storage game? Let's hear the pros and cons of each option!
Hello, MarryStorage. Help is here as we want to ensure your Cloud storage is available to you. So sorry to ask but what are you referencing when you say NAS?
-Natasha
Depends on what you use it for.
If it's accessed more than occasionally, more drives are the way to go.
Local Adv's:
WAY FASTER
NO MONTHLY FEES
Local Disadvantages:
Disaster recovery (Fire, Natural disasters)
If no RAID, no redundancy
Just to play devils advocate
cloud services all though you do normally pay a fee are fully accessible from anywhere you can connect to them, are great for storing back ups or even moving stuff from one device to another with out needing the hardware on hand. You don't have to maintain the hardware which is bound to die at some point cause that's just how it works. Also they have wide ranges or storage amounts depending on who you go with so you are paying for more than you really need like if you just need a couple hundred gigs rather than 2-5 terabytes
