What do you store on your NAS?

bulb66 · 20 Aug 2009 at 10:59

Hey All,

Having owned a NAS for a while now i'm starting to fill it up (it's only got 2x 250GB HD Raid) and I was thinking do i really need some of the stuff that's on there to be kept as a back up.

I currently store;

"D:\My Pictures"
"D:\My Music"
"D:\My Videos"
"D:\My Downloads"
"D:\Word"
"D:\Excel"
"D:\PDF"

Now i think i can do anyway with "My Music" as i don't download any music and if i do i make a CD for it.

And "My Downloads" I have loads of stuff in here 3-4 versions of some software but wouldn't it be easier to just download it again if i need it?

So what does everyone else keep on their NAS? Discuss...

James

alex24 · 20 Aug 2009 at 11:27

Why the 'My' prefix? That would annoy me slightly, I know it's my music, I saved it there!

bulb66 · 20 Aug 2009 at 11:49

alexhull24 said:
Why the 'My' prefix? That would annoy me slightly, I know it's my music, I saved it there!

That's what Microsoft called the folder and i don't see the point of changing it, lol

GhostlyPea · 20 Aug 2009 at 12:00

I have a direct copy of everything on my D:\ drive...so everything. Pictures, music, software installs, game backups etc.

- Pea0n

Prophet · 20 Aug 2009 at 12:05

I have a backup of all my photo's and important files. An FTP area and the start of a website.

Dutchman · 20 Aug 2009 at 12:12

Backup of my pictures, documents, favorites and desktop, saved games and my home videos in digital format.

J.B · 20 Aug 2009 at 12:34

I have my music on there so I can stream it to the internet radion in the kitchen and a backup of my main PC.

Xelene · 20 Aug 2009 at 13:47

hd movies

dubcat · 20 Aug 2009 at 14:14

divx movies, archive of unedited HD video from my camcorder, archive of unedited RAW pictures from my dslr, music and backup of my pc and laptop.

Well, that's what i'll put on the NAS when i finally get round to building or buying one!

itschin · 20 Aug 2009 at 14:16

my stockpile of illegal arrrrrr stuff that if i told you about id have to kill you in fear of them coming for me :eek:

IAmATeaf · 20 Aug 2009 at 14:48

I've got 2 shares, 1 for general backups of profiles and docs then other advertised as a media share full of family pictures, music and videos which get streamed to the PS3.

LordSplodge · 20 Aug 2009 at 15:34

Backup of my important documents off my Windows PC (via robocopy) and important documents and my Aperture/iPhoto library off my MacBook via ChronoSync.

The rest is taken up by Movies, Software, TV Series, Music and Audiobooks.

Running on FreeNAS in a Virtual Machine running on VMWare Server for extra geek points.

coupe69 · 21 Aug 2009 at 00:51

If I had a nas I should imagine there would be a significant amount of pr0n on it

mothermachine · 21 Aug 2009 at 07:41

my entire personal data backed up. about 4TB of data per year on average.

personal projects
projects (including archives and on-hold/abandoned)
photos
reference library
resource library (for now, moving this onto another drive)
stock
mp3s
project management
network dump