Lets talk about NAS

Red Mosquito

Red Mosquito

Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
Team MTBNJ Halter's
I'm using my W7 desktop as a file server and it's constantly running into some resource issue that doesn't let clients access files. Sick of it, so I want to go NAS.

Whats the benefit of a NAS HD over any other SATA drive? I'd like to buy a dickless and just move my exiting 1TB drive into it. Problems here? Would likely add another for a Raid1.

Which NAS? I need to keep this low cost, we don't have a lot of network traffic (1/2 of us still insist on keeping important data on USB sticks 😡).

Seems like synology is the leader, this model is older (no usb3.0) but I would likely connect via cat5, and the WD mycloud is priced about the same.

Any user experience or "gotchas" from the IT crowd would be appreciated!
 
NAS with cloud mirror or back-up.

i'm just putting all my docs on goog drive or dropbox.
purchased a chromebook, and goog give 100GB, and $100/yr will get 1TB dropbox.
(and i have the free amazon 5GB and apple drive, and another bunch with MS cause i have their subscription plan for office 365)

i have a nas box not doing anything - cause it just became easier to let the cloud services manage the files.
(music is in itunes match, and on a portable drive, purchased video lives in the amazon infrastructure.)

totally missed that typo first time around
 
Last edited:
My synology is awesome. Free dns service too so I can access anywhere.
I use it as an nas obviously. But also
Internet gateway /firewall as I route my traffic through a private vpn and my router sucks.
Plex server
Webcam server
Torrent hub (behind the vpn) but I can initiate torrent downloads even away from home through a phone app connected to it.
My only regret is not getting one powerful enough to transcode video streams so I have to have the client side do that so sometimes it's a problem.
 
I have some stuff on Google drive but I still want to keep things local (all pics, financials, etc.). Music library gets shared out to sonos, sure I could do that through the cloud too but I just don't like the idea. Plus I run nightly backups of my phone to local drive (don't want that in the cloud either) .

If you're sick of moving that NAS around I'd take it off your hands, lmk.
 
I'm rocking a mycloud, pretty good for basic brainless set up.
The gotcha on this was that backup and sharing are separate animals, so if you have 1 gb of stuff you want to both back up and share, it takes 2gb of drive space. Not a big deal for me, but seems stupid there can't be crosswalk between the software.
 
That's probably a raid1 setup then where both disks are mirrors (ie you have 2 drives but can only use the capacity of 1). That's what I'm looking to do anyway, so no big deal for me
 
from a security standpoint, i'd say it is just as vulnerable in a box at your house as it is in the cloud.....let me see which one it is, and you can decide if you want it.....it isn't that smart.
 
Have you considered building your own NAS? I built my own using Freenas on a relatively inexpressive PC. It's super easy. (could re-purpose an old PC) I have five 3tb Red drives equaling about 12tb of usable storage. The difference between using HD vs SSD is the price per Gb. You get more bang for your buck with HDs. They say "NAS HD" last longer than standard drives and have better error detecting. Not sure how true that is ...@gtluke or @soundz can probably shed more light on it.
 
Last edited:
nas-o.gif
 
rlb said:
That's probably a raid1 setup then where both disks are mirrors (ie you have 2 drives but can only use the capacity of 1). That's what I'm looking to do anyway, so no big deal for me
Click to expand...
I'll doubleczech, but I'm pretty sure it's not due to a raid set up, just 2 separate softwares that are redundant in a bad way. Not a big deal for my use, but it would have been good to know.
 
MannyL358 said:
Have you considered building your own NAS? I built my own using Freenas on a relatively inexpressive PC. It's super easy. (could re-purpose an old PC) I have five 3tb Red drives equaling about 12tb of usable storage. The difference between using HD vs SSD is the price per Gb. You get more bang for your buck with HDs. They say "NAS HD" last longer than standard drives and have better error detecting. Not sure how true that is ...@gtluke or @soundz can probably shed more light on it.
Click to expand...

I'll look into this, I do have an old box doing nothing, just can't remember what died in it.
 
I have been using freenas at home forever never had an issue I have set it up like Manny on an older dell system.
just make sure you setup a raid 5 with a spare and you should be good to go. There is a open source cloud program a few of the guys in IT are using called tonido from what I have heard it allows you to set up your own cloud storage.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom