• AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    What the hell is RAID and NAS ? I have a bad ass DvD collection to the tune of 3k films ( no pineapple express bull shit ) that I’ve been wanting to back up. I don’t know shit about computers but have a 2014 MacBook pro with a disk drive that has never been online just used to watch movies when the power is out and to load my cd collection to mp3 players.

    Help me out here !!!

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      10 months ago

      A RAID is essentially a way to have multiple “hard drives” connected in a way that looks as if it’s one drive so you can have a ton of storage.

      A NAS is a sort of like a remote storage device. Not quite a PC, but more than just a storage drive.

      Not sure how you’d go about doing any of that with a MacBook.

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        10 months ago

        Adding to that, depending on your RAID configuration you can have one or more drives fail and not lose any data.

        Also you can install things like Plex media server or Immich and set up basically your own equivalent of Netflix server or google photos and look at your media from pretty much anywhere.