NAS

[Howard Joseph]

G'day All, 

I have a small problem that I am hoping that you may be able to advise me on. 

I recently paid an exorbitant amount of money to have the data recovered from a 16tb hard drive (about 12tb in all). Accounting for other drives, both internal and external, I have well in excess of 20tb of movies and documentaries. 

The time has come to consider a NAS with some sort of RAID system to store and protect my media. As you can tell from my far from technical language, this is an area in which I have no experience whatsoever. 

I am thinking about a 4 bay, expandable system, with 32tb to start, but that is far as I have gotten. 

Can anyone recommend some good hardware with an os version that is Linux compatible, that doesn't require too much of a run up ti get started?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Howard 

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[Jesper Noehr]

Hey Howard,

I'd recommend grabbing something from Synology, they make solid hardware and software.

Jesper

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[oldherl]

I have never built/used a NAS before, but I would like to suggest avoiding proprietary storage format, since you might face difficulty accessing all your data once the software is out of support or the company is out of business. Commercial products are OK, if you can access the storage with a public protocol/interface/format.

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[zak martell]

Hi Howard,

As a big user of NAS's, QNAP, Synology, flashstor(ASUS) for business and personal use, i highly recommend Synology as a home device. I actually dont even have any "proper servers".

It is my go-to for home use. It has a very nice built-in linux/windows backup solution (and TimeMachine for those Mac users..), as well as "Download Station" is very handy, and supports RSS feeds. Then just feed the media into either Plex or Jellyfin. It also has nice VM and container support. Using Containers + VMs you can easily run whatever you want as well. 

Synology also allows you to upgrade drives within a RAID, without destroying the RAID, unlike QNAP and a few others, so if you want to upgrade HDD capacity in future, you can simply just swap drives one-by-one. 

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[Richard C]

This is a good basis. Synology have been a solid option for ages. They're well understood and if I valued my time more I would have bought one.

For my own needs, I built a FrankenNAS out of an old PC, all the old disks, and Open Media Vault. It's not terribly challenging and the result is pretty good. It does help to know a bit about which file system is for what. I find btrfs is the go to for a SoHo NAS, even if that means hitting the command line (which I don't mind).

Richard

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[Brian May]

Howard Joseph <howard.j...@gmail.com> writes:

> The time has come to consider a NAS with some sort of RAID system to store
> and protect my media. As you can tell from my far from technical language,
> this is an area in which I have no experience whatsoever.

Sometimes RAID systems - particularly proprietary systems - can fail for
no apparent reason and delete all your data with it. Been there, done
that :-)

You really do need to have a backup on some independent medium to
protect against raid faults. And accidental "rm -rf" faults also. Even
if you have a good reliable RAID system.

The "3-2-1" backup rule still
applies. https://www.veeam.com/blog/321-backup-rule.html
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[Michael Trifilo]

Hi Howard,

For CPU/Mobo hardware, really anything x86 that isn't too old! 

Stick with ATX or Micro-ATX so you can add drives via PCI-E HBAs 

https://unraid-guides.com/2020/12/07/dont-ever-use-cheap-pci-e-sata-expansion-cards-with-unraid/

For Cases i like the Fractal Design Node 804 (Smaller Micro ATX) or Meshify 2 XL (ATX Larger Case!)

I like Unraid or TrueNAS for OS, unraid you can get away with less RAM.

I usually buy second hand Datacenter HDDs 12/14/16TBs

Good guide - https://serverlabs.com.au/blogs/guides/guide-to-building-an-unraid-nas?srsltid=AfmBOopd91BNXRKWnjWKWtoVheussiPRYUEorWtWbYQumZwD3T0xnwkv

Regards,

Michael Trifilo

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