What's a decent NAS? I'm not looking for something huge. I've looked into Plex compatibility, and although it's not necessary it's easier for me to deal with something that works with Plex.
I'm down to:
>Western Digital My Cloud Pro Series PR2100
2-Bay, 4 TB
>Synology NAS 716+II
2-Bay, 2 GB DDR3 with a 4 TB WD drive I gotta install myself
>QNAP TS-251+
2-Bay 2 GB memory, 6 TB storage
Any thoughts?
I think you should kill yourself.
This NAS is pretty good.
Epin simply epin :^')
You will get much better value and future expandability building yourself and using freenas and zfs
Just build a small ITX computer.
No he's not. He regularly posts about retarded fucking conspiracies. He's washed up garbage now.
I would but I don't want to deal with re-encoding everything for Plex
freenas has a plex package
Oh sweet, I'll look into it then. Thanks.
You might need to do some research on that mobo thats listed in that guide I like it because its small low powered and jam packed with sata connectors however I don't know if it would be powerful enough to transcode multiple streams on the fly with plex if the device you are trying to watch on doesn't support the codecs your media is encoded in. Im sure it will be fine with passthrough though a rasp pi can do passthrough.
If you are limited more by free time to futz with things than by money, the 2/5-bay Synology DiskStations are dead simple to set up, administer, and use.
I've got one of these FreeNAS boxes with 22TBs of usable storage w/ 2 disk redundancy. This thing is a monster and I'm sure it could handle plex being thrown at it. Right now it handles every file request on desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz .
Do you need transcoding? If so you're better off building one. The ARM chips aren't powerful enough to transcode video on demand.
ZFS can be friggin evil. Sure it does all kinds of great things, it does them very well too as long as you are willing to spend the extra ram...
And then in some cases it out of the blue breaks to shit. Like some retarded child ripping the guts out of a cat screaming "I'M HELPING" and giggling gleefully.
Reasons I use mdadm+lvm+xfs.
I have a 4-bay QNAP. It's ok but I really wish i built my own NAS.
The QNAP OS is irritating and clunky to use, not very flexible, limited expansion/upgrade hardware options, the hardware RAID is shitty and it's overpriced as fuck for its specs.
Build one.
build a server with freenas or debian
For the fucking love of god, anyone reading this: Stay far far away from drobo. Do not ever trust their products. I have now seen multiple units go tits up now. If you contact support, they will run the warranty time out until they can tell you time is up and refuse to support you. You will be fucked. Again, stay away from drobo, and anyone who says otherwise is fucking suspect.
If you want to fork the dough I have had nothing but luck with the QNAPs, but I wouldn't touch anything below the TS-453A myself. Want that n3150 at least.
Other than that if you wanted something with a bit more beef building it your self could be an option. Just keep in mind that the further you ramp the specs the more crazy the noise, power, heat, and price are going to get. At some point you will end up with a 3u full rack length 24bay dual xeon 256gig monstrosity, with dual(or more) 2000 watt power supplies that makes as much noise as a jet taking off; and creates enough heat to take a 2000 square foot home from 78f to 97f in a few minutes.
Yeah the name alone always sounded like something a shady ass sales person buzz worded in an office one day. Have always seen it as sketchy.
I tend to go the hardware route when possible. Had my fun with that mess. Do not like any form of soft-raiding anymore.
Most U.S. consumers are going to be limited to
well, than I would suggest that you don't try to build something like that unless you want to fork over for a colo rack and some cross connects/bitch space.
I bought a used Drobo 1st gen that came with 4x 3TB WD Reds for $180 of craigslist. Its been rock solid for the last 6 months. Mainly being used for PLEX storage.
It's not like hardware is without its faults. If your controller eats it you can be fucked if you can't get another one. With mdadm you can just plug the HDDs into any Linux system and it pretty much picks up your array automagically, not to mention that software RAID in general is more flexible since you can have drives across multiple different controllers. Arguably mdadm is also easier to set up.
Do you people really pay $500 for what amounts to a headless shit tier computer with 4 sata slots and samba?
No, they pay for a tight package that doesn't look like or work like something cousin Larry cobbled together from bricks, boards, hardware and spunk.
They are paying for a out of the box working experience; where all of the stupid bullshit and bugs are already worked out of the system and shit just works.
Fair enough, your logic is sound. I still feel that be an issue once you get enough drives into the array either way however. Not many motherboards going to have 16 sata ports and a controller on board that will give a good performance across all of them.
Oh and not that it matters as I can't think of why you would do it. - the QNAPs are built as full media centers it seems - hdmi(dual hdmi...), media IR remote, control interface ports and an OS you can actually use like a computer if that is your thing. To be honest, its friggin weird.
They are made as a professional office environment NAS for the most part, not sure why they also added all of that media interface stuff. Oh and they also have like an entire app repository so you can use them as servers for all kinds of bullshit you normally would never use a NAS for.
are you telling me that someone would rather pay a 20% upcharge just to avoid building a custom server using old and outdated parts and then downloading random linux OS's and spending hours configuring it until they give up and download a different linux OS and repeat the process?
Buffalo.
I hear people complain but I have about 8 Buffalo devices between work and home, and the only failures were lightning strike related or when the AC failed and temps went to the moon. When the one TeraStation failed when the PS overheated and died I got a better model sent as a replacement. When the NICs got taken out by lightning (Also took out the server NICs) I replaced it with a Synology 815 that cost as much empty as my as Buffalo did with 4x3TB drives. My Buffalo (TS5400)holds it's own for backup speed against the Synology.
Perish the thought.
Don't forget the parts where you have to deal with compiling everything or needing to pray to god that the dev of the software spent enough time to account for your particular hardware and the updates don't fuck up to system and you have to spend 16 hours trying to fix it.
Or the part where you run into some obscure and documented unfixed bug that many people have had, but the general answer to it is - Yeah, we didn't have that issue, must be your fault. - Because the communities for some of these projects are as toxic as the elitist side of the apple community. (shut the fuck up Larry, I use a Mac, that is my right to call them on it)
Yeah good times.
idk, I guess I just dont get it.
I think they look nice, but at the price range it just boggles my mind. If there was a decent one in the $60 range Id probably get it.
I do exactly what you said there with an old core 2 duo that runs samba and minidlna.
thanks for the info though, sounds neat
Thinking of building a Freenas box with off the shelf parts. Almost all 12x3.5" HDD chassis I find are server grade racks. Does anyone know a decent tower that isn't a jbod enclosure?
amazon.com
its only got 8 slots though
I have a TS-453a. Yeah, it wasn't cheap by any means, but it made setup simple as hell and I use it as far more than a NAS.
Owncloud, caching proxy, media center, automatic RSS downloader, and TransmissionBT server are the tasks I use mine for, and it can do more than that out of the box.
that is why JBOD controllers exist my man.
12 3.5 disks takes quite a bit of power and hardware to work correctly. If you are looking for that level of density a 2-3u server chassis and board with controller is probably your best bet. And I will tell you right up front, those sons a bitches are LOUD and expensive.
That being said - shit is gonna be a mess.
newegg.com
newegg.com
No idea how good those are, but you might be able to find a few more on newegg.
Lian Li D-8000 Case
14x3TB 3x6TB
LSI 9211-8i in IT mode
Intel RES2SV240 24 port pass through expander
> Reds
What are you poor or something?
I figured an ATX tower would be more suitable for a home nas. Can fit quieter, wide 140mm fans, larger range of PSUs, doesn't require a cabinet. But still, not many towers are designed specifically for storage.
Any way to hide specific drives/folders in a NAS?
I want to share my movies/tv collection with my roommate but don't want him how much porn I have
^to see how much porn I have
instead of the 716+ Get an old/used synology 415+, it's easy to replace the ddr3 sodimm with an lpddr3 8gb module from crucial.
Synology or bust.
The interface is fantastic too.
any nas that respects my freedom?
GNU + Synology
Not easy to pull off, a lot of applications have been "synologised" last few years like it's mail server for example.
It's init is undocumented and easy to break, so you're mostly sentenced to synocommunity packages or docker containers if you wanna run your own software.
>Just build a small ITX computer.
Takes more time than just ordering a NAS that's already fully configured and installed.
I was joking but like your dedication.
I find the built in synology applications are great for home use.
I don't run a mail server because having those ports exposed had people trying to brute force it daily. Much safer to let Google deal with that.
Found the guy who's spending Christmas all alone! Seasons greetings, friend!
It's too bad that they're moving from x86 toward that proprietary Annapurna Labs SoC with poor docker support.
>right click
>properties
>hidden
You need at least 16Gb of ECC ram for FreeNAS.
>tfw no consumer grade NetApp NAS
;_;
Thecus N4810 looks p good
I've had good luck with my Zyxel 320S nas. I did use it as a strictly backup storage for my main server. Though right now since it's full, it's shutdown and acts as an storage archive. Backups are now saved to a 3tb external drive.