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Yup thanks, I've been thinking about this, things were getting complex & stupid. The NAS in another building is protection against fire & partial protection from theft. But you are correct, on the same mains network, means a lightning strike & it all gets frizzled, probably also a virus risk...

It's our only building which is separate from the house, therefore a reasonable "off-site" location. I think the garage is on a separate feed from the main consumer box. So not on the same ring. Looks interesting, however it would need cabling. The garage is on the opposite side of the house...

I have a couple Netgear Powerline units which I've previously used for Netflix. I'd like to put a Backup NAS in my garage which is about 50m from my house. The only viable connection is via my powerline units. I have connected a mini pc in the garage & can connect to it via my Logmein software...

I must say that my Herman Miller Mirra 2 chair lets farts through very comfortably & allows them to engulf the room fairly quickly for almost immediate appreciation. :p

I will check it out.

I've used EaseUS for my PC USB backup. I like being able to browse the backup files & even load as a virtual drive. Veeam could be more complex than I need perhaps.

Hi again I've come down to the DS1019+. It has 0degC operating & 5 drive bays which means I can buy cheaper 4tb drives & use RAID6. Loads of upgradability. I'm still tryign to figure out the backup features. What do you guys think? The recommended WD Red drives are CMR not SMR. What is the...

Thanks, I need 0degC capability & seem to be restricted by that. The DS418 for instance is 5degC. Powerline is my only realistic option. To be fair, until I bought a Roku, I was streamling Netflix over powerline to my TV.

Yup, I just checked & the DS218+ has a min operating temp of 5degC, I need 0degC. I can't find the DS218, maybe an old model? Looking like the DS420j with 4x 6tb WD Red & RAID 10.

Thanks I have a USB backup which I run weekly. The DS218 looks possible, although I could get the DS420J & just put in 2 disks? I need about 12tb (minimum 8tb). The garage is about 50m from the house.

@Armageus thanks for your help. It looks as though RAID 6 & 10 both have the same storage hit, so it's just my use case. As this is a backup only, plus it's a secondary backup, rebuild speed is not a big issue. I need it to continually run in the event of a single drive failure. So RAID10?

I'm looking at the Synology DS420j with 4 disks - probably WD Red. Would RAID 6 be ok to go for? It's for backup only, I would prefer fast write speeds.

Thank you I tweaked the thread title. I will look at Duplicati. It would be a big job to get ethernet out there, maybe easier to have some sort of Wifi. I will try Powerline with a pc first to see if it works.

I'm aiming to put a NAS in my garage for backup. It would be connected by network cable over powerline. I have a lot of video & image files, my wife has image files, so it's not really viable to do this by a cloud system (Crashplan etc) due to the length if time uploads would take. I was...

Gotta love the AMD mafia.

You could well be correct. I didn’t check that one!

I mentioned in my post about the Intel i9-9900K. Bang for buck, it's the best for Photoshop. AMD tends to be better for games. Check the below chart from Puget Systems: The i9-9900K is in the top few percent in performance, but significantly cheaper than the AMD's above it but which are only...

Just been checking prices. For Photoshop work, the best bang for buck looks like the Intel i9-9900K. Anything over 8-core is wasted in PS.

What sort of Photoshop work are you doing? What sort of image files? That Ryzen 5 3600X is pretty low spec for Photoshop work, I think you need to "up" that. RAM is ok. The RTX 2060 Super is ok. Which of your storage drives will be doing what job? eg OS, Project, Scratch, Data etc?

Hello & welcome. It's best if you give the whole spec so that the required power can be calculated. Otherwise you can use something like this: https://seasonic.com/wattage-calculator