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NAS or new PC
House move prompting thoughts about a quieter and smaller set of kit and just trying to work out if I should go to NAS or stick with PC and laptop for use in two different locations.
Currently I work from two locations. In location 1 I have PC with data drive and second data drive with synced copy (using MirrorFolder) of that data to protect against drive failure.
I currently sync PC data drive with laptop (using Beyond Compare) before departing for location 2, work on same set of data until returning to location 1 where I then sync laptop data to PC.
This actually works quite well to ensure that I have all of my data to work with whether I'm in location 1 or 2.
I currently keep an offsite copy of data at location 2 to protect against theft. So effectively I always have four copies of my data, 2x at location 1 on PC, one copy on laptop, and copy to external hard drive at location 2.
All data is encrypted, with Truecrypt on PC and external hard drive; and with bitlocker on laptop. I prefer Truecrypt for encryption but this throws up issues with windows updating which are a bit of a pain so I will probably resign myself to bitlocker on new PC if that's the route I go. I will however continue to use Truecrypt for all external hard drive copies.
So thinking of either getting a smaller form factor case and quiet PC to replicate this set up between two locations when we move OR using NAS to access one set of data, say from location 1, wherever I am.
Am assuming that I would just copy data from NAS to external hard drive for off site storage as now. Can data be encrypted on NAS and would this affect ease of access over internet?
I'm trying to work out what if any advantage NAS has over my current modus operandi.
If anyone can help me see the wood for the trees, that would be very much appreciated.
Last edited by kevvyb; 01 Jan 2019 at 13:22.
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