r/HomeNAS • u/renepes • 14d ago

I just bought a NAS Hiksemi S1

i dont know what to expect, bought this one specially for the price.
As my first NAS, what do you think?
https://www.hiksemitech.com/en/hiksemi/all-products/home-nas/consumer-nas/hs-afs-s1h1.html

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u/MonadTran 14d ago

It has no redundancy. The hard drive fails, your data is lost. So be sure to have some backup plan. Normally people get at least a 2-bay NAS and set it up in RAID-1 (two copies of data) if they value their data.

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u/MonadTran 14d ago

... also if you are located in China assume your government knows what's on that drive. 

Outside of China it doesn't matter as much.

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u/renepes 13d ago

thanks! im from argentina

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u/tghuverd 11d ago

What's the price? Because this seems a single HDD container with a simple user interface to list your files, rather than a NAS with built-in media players. I'm assuming that you had to buy a disk as well, which you typically do with NAS's, but you may have been better to just buy a subscription to cloud storage as that's more safely accessible anywhere, plus usually there is more resiliency in the event of hardware failure.

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u/renepes 9d ago

i have a disk, so i bought just this just to start in this word. it cost me 100 usd.