Couldn't agree more. I’ve seen forums with horror stories of unencrypted NAS setups getting hit. It’s a nightmare scenario. I use Veracrypt for encrypting portable drives too. As for NAS, I went with hardware-based encryption on my rig. Remember, if you're encrypting your network drives, make sure your backups are …

Man, I feel for you. I always preach backups, backups, backups. Remember 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies of anything you care about, 2 different formats, with 1 of those offsite. Tapes, cloud, whatever works, just don't rely on RAID alone. RAID is for uptime, not archiving. If you got the serial …