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I got a simple 2-bay synology NAS - and love it to bits.
It's got all my photos on it, all my music on it, and I use it to stream movies to the telly.
If I had more money I'd buy a couple more!
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Synology rocks. Started with a 2-bay and extended it by another 5 - will max out at 28TB. Very nice.
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Rather than buying a couple more, I'd get a four (or more) bay: that way you can use RAID 5 to spread data across disks and mitigate any single HDD failure. Trust me, that is worth it's weight in gold pressed latinum!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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what you fail to appreciate, m
fella, is that I'm, not friggin' made of money!
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I know the feeling - but it's a lot cheaper in the long run than having a disk fail: particularly if you are running your box in JBOD mode as a single large virtual disk. Either disk fails, and you lose the lot...
If you can get to RAID5, then any single disk doesn't cost as much, because you don't lose anything - just replace the faulty disk when you can and carry on.
And the "bare-bones" Synology boxes aren't exactly cheap either!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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OriginalGriff wrote: And the "bare-bones" Synology boxes aren't exactly cheap either!
True - I shopped around for a long time before I bought mine - just got twin 250Gb drives (mirrored) ATM as one of my original 1Tb drives started to fail & the 250Gb drives were free.
I can't see the point of running JBOD myself - doubles the risk!
Ideally I'd have Raid 5 on a 4 Bay with a couple of external USB drives for backup - but thats (:max calculates a shed load of cash that I don't have.
When PooperPig hits the shelves & become wealthy, that's one of the first things I'll buy!
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I got a simple 2-bay synology NAS - and love it to bits.
Ditto.
Mine is set-up with mirrored 4TB drives.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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I'd kill for 4Tb
Currently mirrored 250Gb due to 1Tb drive failing
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I have an ASRock motherboard with 8 SATA ports, G2120 CPU, 16GB DDR3 10666 RAM, 7 x 3TB Seagate 7,200 RPM HDD, 126GB SSD (soon to be replaced with 32GB SSD) for ZIL logs and running FreeNAS 9.2.1.5 x64.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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 Now that is a setup, if I have ever seen one !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: I suppose all you little nerds all have a NAS setup at home.
RaGE is a French engineer in mecatronics, who has written software for embedded automotive applications and device drivers in another lifetime. He also worked as a process development improver automotive parts company in the world.
Pot/Kettle conversation happening right now....
Yes I have one, got a Western Digital enclosure in a sale and whapped two spar hard-drives in, running RAID level 1 in a misguided attempt to provide fail-over. I didn't fork out for the cloudified version though. It's running a NAS targetted Linux of some sort, I have an Samba server etc, but mostly I use it as a backup of family photos.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I did not exclude myself from the nerd troop 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I have a 4 disk RAID5 NAS, with 4 * 1TB HDD's
It runs Linux, but I don't touch that: I want it to act as a "safe" file store for music, videos to cast to Chromecast, and my primary backups. And if I started modifying it, I'd probably never stop! 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I recommend JOSP's article also but I wrote and article of a NAS I configured using Ubuntu and it worked otu very well. FreeNAS or Ubuntu[^]
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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I'm currently using a home-build WHS 2011 box; but unless you're severely cash constrained, want ZFS/Btrfs, or need more than 4 drives (this transitions you from SOHO to SMB and prices balloon as a result); I'd strongly recommend getting an enclosure from Synology or QNAP and spending the evening or two you'd've spent setting up a DIY NAS enjoying some ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) instead. If you just want a basic shared drive, one of the cheaper ARM based models will do fine. For heavy transcoding/light weight server duties/etc a higher end x86 model becomes worthwhile. Ganesh at Anandtech likes Synology's software for media streaming/etc best with QNAP in 2nd place (and everyone else well behind); but QNAP's recently added some light virtualization support to their x86 line. Not enough to be a remote dev box; but suitable for letting you install software not provided in their package manager without voiding your warranty by SSHing into the box and installing it via the CLI.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I use an old Win XP Dell laptop with a shared USB drive on it.
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I cannot afford a NAS but my parents can and wanted something along those lines so I found something for them, configured it for them, and stole around half of it's capacity for my own nefarious uses.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I wonder how that can happen : if the NAS is on your own subnet, how could someone access it ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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The one my parents bought was by default available on the internet so you can access your stuff when out and about, and sync your mobile devices to it and so on.
Also by default the share area has no security on it, and if you know the url to go to things stored on that bit are publicly available.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I know most of the new packaged NAS's have optional VPNs, media servers and other such portals to allow access when you're away from home. The DIY solutions can include these things too.
Me being the semi-paranoid (realistic?) type I have all this stuff disabled on mine.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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I have a couple of old Dell machines running XP with a mixture of USB3 & eSATA 2TB drives (10 drives for each server), 40TB total, although effectively only 20TB as everything has at least two copies. They store and serve my film, music and ebook collections as well as being my in-house backups for everything on my main machines and for each other. I looked into buying dedicated NAS devices but decided this was an excellent use for old PCs with gigabit network cards and some powered USB3 hubs.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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No NAS for me. Instead, I simply use a server (Win2008) with shared drives, nothing fancy. At least two computers on the home network utilize synchronized folders for all development files. One of the computers is my laptop which only syncs twice a week, so that if anything goes awry, I always have a backup. Important server files (sql backups) are copied to an external drive. This has worked flawlessly for me for over a decade now. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Out of curiosity, but from what I have seen people are using HDs instead of SSDs in their NAS setups. Any reason not to use SSDs, especially in a RAID5 configuration?
Scratch that thought - just looked at the pricing, and it is clear that the SSDs just aren't big enough...
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Yes, the key is indeed the price ! Plus reliability : From what I have understood from the feesback, SSD are great, but crash without warning.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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