poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All <=-
Otherwise, any suggestions as to what's a decent, inexpensive NAS to support 12-14TB? I don't need containers or an app ecosystem, although it'd be nice. NFS, SMB and DLNA, mostly.
Gamgee wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I don't know enough about this to offer a meaningful recommendation,
but I do know enough to believe that the terms "decent" and
"inexpensive" are mutually exclusive on this topic. ;-)
We had a power cut, and when I turned on my NAS, no NAS.
My NAS is a Synology DS1010+, modded to think it's a DS1511+ and running DSM 6.2. The LAN lights and power lights blink, but no drive lights, and it doesn't respond to SSH, ping, or Synology assistant.
I'm hoping, if I can't revive it, to buy another 5-drive chassis and
move the drive pool into it - it looks like that might be possible.
Otherwise, any suggestions as to what's a decent, inexpensive NAS to support 12-14TB? I don't need containers or an app ecosystem, although it'd be nice. NFS, SMB and DLNA, mostly.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-
I don't know enough about this to offer a meaningful recommendation,
but I do know enough to believe that the terms "decent" and
"inexpensive" are mutually exclusive on this topic. ;-)
I bought this one for $100 at a thrift shop; got about 5 years out of
it, it was 5+ years old when I bought it.
I am going to plug in a VGA monitor into it and try reseating
everything and testing the power supply, I think that's about all I can
do at this point.
We had a power cut, and when I turned on my NAS, no NAS.
I'm hoping, if I can't revive it, to buy another 5-drive chassis and
move the drive pool into it - it looks like that might be possible.
Since you mentioned 5-drive chassis', I really like the Jonsbo N1 case. I'd wanted to build in it but didn't... it receives 5 3.5" HDDs, any SFX PSU and an ITX mobo.
paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
We had a power cut, and when I turned on my NAS, no NAS.
Oh no, pF - we had talked about yer Synology earlier and you mentioned
you thought it was long in the tooth. UGH!
I'm hoping, if I can't revive it, to buy another 5-drive chassis and
move the drive pool into it - it looks like that might be possible.
Since you mentioned 5-drive chassis', I really like the Jonsbo N1 case. I'd wanted to build in it but didn't... it receives 5 3.5" HDDs, any
SFX PSU and an ITX mobo.
I ended up buying a Synology DS1522+ - a dual core Ryzen with 8gb
instead of my atom with 2GB. I should be able to put my 5 5.25" drives into it and recreate the drive pool.
Two thoughts - my office is quiet without the NAS running, I hope the
new version is quieter! Secondly, if it goes on sale on Prime day in October I'm going to be pissed!
Two thoughts - my office is quiet without the NAS running, I hope the new version is quieter! Secondly, if it goes on sale on Prime day in October I'm going to be pissed!
If quiet is a priority, wouldn't SSDs solve the problem for a
NAS? M.2 drives, I think they're called.
I wanted small form factor, which it looks like it provides (dont need
the hot swap that a normal nas provides), but I couldnt make the numbers work.
It would have been cheaper than a QNAP/Synology, but not by much (from this side of the world anyway)... Shipping charges killed it, especially the Jonsbo from China.
So I went a QNAP 664 (it was on sale at Amazon at the time), and still
run TrueNAS on it... :)
I ended up buying a Synology DS1522+ - a dual core Ryzen with 8gb
instead of my atom with 2GB. I should be able to put my 5 5.25" drives into it and recreate the drive pool.
Two thoughts - my office is quiet without the NAS running, I hope the
new version is quieter! Secondly, if it goes on sale on Prime day in October I'm going to be pissed!
Otherwise, any suggestions as to what's a decent, inexpensive NAS to support 12-14TB? I don't need containers or an app ecosystem, although it'd be nice. NFS, SMB and DLNA, mostly.
I don't know enough about this to offer a meaningful recommendation, but
I do know enough to believe that the terms "decent" and "inexpensive"
are mutually exclusive on this topic. ;-)
As far as canned solutions go, I have to agree. An out-of-
the-box commercial solution for storage is quite expensive.
I have seen some NAS boxes aimed at tiny businesses with
good manuals and tons of features starting at 450 bucks,
drives not included. I can't vouch for them because I have
never tried them. My boss has one of those at home. I might
ask him tomorrow.
Ogg wrote to Arelor <=-
As far as canned solutions go, I have to agree. An out-of-
the-box commercial solution for storage is quite expensive.
I have seen some NAS boxes aimed at tiny businesses with
good manuals and tons of features starting at 450 bucks,
drives not included. I can't vouch for them because I have
never tried them. My boss has one of those at home. I might
ask him tomorrow.
This one looks good, but it doesn't seem clear if the disks are
included.
https://www.amazon.ca/Synology-DiskStation-II-QuadCore- 2xGigabit/dp/B01EG1RLBY
( ..although I've heard that Synology machines are hard to use
with one's own choice of software)
These with disks included look good too:
https://www.amazon.ca/BUFFALO-LinkStation-Private-Included-LS220D1202/dp /B08DZS265Q/
https://www.amazon.ca/BUFFALO-LinkStation-Private-Included-LS220D1202/dp /B08V5L1X1C/
There are quite a few under $500 *with* the disks included at
the 'zon.
I can't talk about the Synology. Word in the street is that
Synology is the Apple of the NAS world.
I have an old Bufflo LinkStation which is supposedly a
superior unit to the LS220 you linked. It is fine for a
budget unit but you are going to bring it to its knees if
you try to apply heavy load on it. I use it for storing
backups.
I can't talk about the Synology. Word in the street is that
Synology is the Apple of the NAS world.
You're the 2nd person that has mentioned such a thing to me.
So.. it's best to stay away from Synology boxes if the hope is
to install DIY NAS software?
A two-bay would be good enough for me to start with. And 4TB
(2 x 8TB, RAID 1) would be plenty. I too primarily just need
to store clone-images and basic backups.
Arelor wrote to Ogg <=-
I can't talk about the Synology. Word in the street is that Synology is the Apple of the NAS world.
Ogg wrote to Arelor <=-
Hello Arelor!
I can't talk about the Synology. Word in the street is that
Synology is the Apple of the NAS world.
You're the 2nd person that has mentioned such a thing to me.
So.. it's best to stay away from Synology boxes if the hope is
to install DIY NAS software?
Arelor wrote to Ogg <=-
If your hope is to install your own NAS software then I guess it is because you are after specfic features, at which point I am sure you
will be better off building your own machine from parts.
A two-bay would be good enough for me to start with. And 4TB
(2 x 8TB, RAID 1) would be plenty. I too primarily just need
to store clone-images and basic backups.
Hello Arelor!
I can't talk about the Synology. Word in the street is that
Synology is the Apple of the NAS world.
You're the 2nd person that has mentioned such a thing to me.
So.. it's best to stay away from Synology boxes if the hope is
to install DIY NAS software?
I have an old Bufflo LinkStation which is supposedly a
superior unit to the LS220 you linked. It is fine for a
budget unit but you are going to bring it to its knees if
you try to apply heavy load on it. I use it for storing
backups.
A two-bay would be good enough for me to start with. And 4TB
(2 x 8TB, RAID 1) would be plenty. I too primarily just need
to store clone-images and basic backups.
Sorry for rambling.
Gonna plug my Synology Fanboy son here if you are interested in NAS software, hardware etc. check out my son's Youtube channel, Wundertech,
and on the web www.wundertech.net he has a lot of useful info on his website and his video's explain a lot also...
Bucko wrote to Ogg <=-
I love Synology, my opinion is they have the best OS that runs a NAS, their OS is a bit tough to change to something else, and as someone mentioned they are moving towards making you use their enterprise HD's.
My opinion is if you want to be able to use any HD, be able to change
the OS to something else, then Terramaster, and UGreen are the way to
go.
My NAS is a Synology DS1010+, modded to think it's a DS1511+ and running DSM 6.2. The LAN lights and power lights blink, but no drive lights, and it doesn't respond to SSH, ping, or Synology assistant.
Otherwise, any suggestions as to what's a decent, inexpensive NAS to support 12-14TB? I don't need containers or an app ecosystem, although it'd be nice. NFS, SMB and DLNA, mostly.
I went through 2 of Synology DS1621+ in half a year. From NEW!
The old still serves me, but I don't trust it so I put there only temporar data I don't want to keep on my computers. I purchased more HDD to new Syn and now I'm happy with 28TB of fully RAID 10 storage and newest platform. Synology was with me for about 10 years already.. that's good ROI. I hope one will serve me well for similar timeframe too.
Yes, I think I was majorly unlucky. Especially seeing the third model is performing awesome.I went through 2 of Synology DS1621+ in half a year. From NEW!
Reall?! Wow, that's suprising. They are pretty good NAS units over all.
When it went bad, what did you loose, just the NAS? Meaning all you had to ni> is move your HD's over.Only the NAS, no data loss at all. The downtime was annoying though because all my stuff runs on the dockers. Torrent, Plex, Mystic etc, so I was down for a week until the new unit came in.
What does the recovery process look like?Recovery was very easy, had to put in a fresh disk in the new NAS and started it to update the firmware. Then I swapped drives and it run like sunshine (at least for a bit). Same method for the third version.
| Sysop: | Gary Ailes |
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| Location: | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Users: | 132 |
| Nodes: | 5 (0 / 5) |
| Uptime: | 123:25:13 |
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| Files: | 2,171 |
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