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NAS & hard drives

Buying a NAS and hard drives with crypto

A NAS is where the files you would least like to lose end up, and it is often sold as an empty box. What matters is how many bays it has, whether the price includes drives, and which drives belong in it — all of it stated on the listing, none of it requiring an account to buy.

  • 993listings in stock
  • $16.99+entry price
  • 7assets accepted
  • 56countries served

Bays first, everything else second

The number of bays decides how much you can store and how much can fail before you lose anything. Two bays mirror one drive onto the other and stop there. Four bays allow a parity layout that survives one failed drive while using most of the capacity, and leave room to grow. Rackmount units start where desktop ones end, add redundant power supplies and assume a cabinet to live in.

Then read whether the unit is diskless. Many are, and the price reflects it; others are sold populated, and the capacity in the title is the raw total of the drives fitted, not the space left after redundancy. The processor and memory matter only if the NAS will do more than serve files — transcoding video, running containers, hosting virtual machines.

The drives that go inside

A NAS runs its disks around the clock, in a box that vibrates. Drives built for that — the NAS and enterprise lines — are rated for the workload and tolerate neighbours; a desktop drive will work and will not thank you for it. Use conventional-recording (CMR) drives in any array that has to rebuild, and buy disks of the same capacity so that no space is stranded.

Capacity planning is arithmetic. In a four-bay unit with one drive of protection, three drives hold data and one holds parity. Solid-state caching and 2.5 or 10-gigabit networking only pay off if the rest of the network can keep up. The hard drive category lists internal disks by size and interface.

RAID is not a backup, and what happens after you pay

Redundancy protects against a failed disk. It does not protect against deletion, ransomware, fire or theft, because every copy is in the same box. Plan a second copy somewhere else from the first day; an external drive or a second, smaller NAS is enough.

Paying works as for anything else here: a dollar price, settled in the asset you pick at a rate fixed for 30 minutes, with nothing added for crypto. Drives ship insured for their full value, in plain packaging, and a disk that arrives dead or fails inside twenty-four months is handled under the warranty here.

In stock right now

Network Storage (NAS) — 993 listings, from $16.99 to $43,925.99. Best stocked brands: Synology, Qnap, Buffalo, ASUSTOR.

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How paying works here

  1. Fill the basket

    No account, no registration. Prices are in US dollars; the header switches the display currency and the settlement asset independently.

  2. Give an address

    A delivery address, and nothing else — an e-mail is optional and never written to. We ship insured to 56 countries.

  3. Pick the asset and pay

    The checkout quotes the exact amount in your chosen asset and holds it for 30 minutes. Send to the address shown — it is generated here, not at a payment processor.

  4. It ships

    The parcel leaves once the payment confirms, in plain outer packaging. Twenty-four-month warranty, thirty-day returns on unopened items, refunded in the asset you paid with.

Nothing is added for paying in crypto, and no payment processor sits in the middle. The only cost outside the price is the network fee your own wallet pays to broadcast.

Questions

Are hard drives included with the NAS?
Only if the listing says so. A diskless unit ships empty; a populated one names the drives fitted and their total capacity.
Which drives should I put in a NAS?
Drives sold for NAS or enterprise use, with conventional (CMR) recording, all of the same capacity.
Can I buy enterprise hard drives with Bitcoin?
Yes. Internal, external and enterprise drives are all listed, and each can be paid in any accepted asset.
Does RAID replace a backup?
No. RAID keeps a NAS running when a disk fails. A backup is a second copy somewhere else.
How are drives shipped?
In plain outer packaging, insured for their full value and tracked door to door.

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