Originally posted by photoptimist It's also worth noting that any RAID array can fail at the system level. The software and hardware that is managing the array can fail and corrupt the all the disks in the system.
Right. And besides failures, there are various malware/ransomware (some even targeting NAS units, so pay attention to the configuration), users mistakenly deleting data...
There are protection mechanisms, of course, and overall I like a NAS better* than a DAS - as the data isn't managed by the more easily infected PC. Backups remain mandatory though... if you care about the data
* except as a working drive
Edit. Make those versioned backups.
Last edited by Kunzite; 11-29-2019 at 10:49 AM.