Hi there,

I've seen your youtube channel and your website and I'm very impressed by your thoroughness. I don't work directly with servers in any capacity and am learning as I go here.

I currently have a Plex Home Server with 5Terabyte Hard Drive I maxed out today. I've been adding to this server nonstop through manual DVD rips over the past 2 years. I need to level up and I'm hoping to take advantage of some black friday deals. I would love a simple recommendation of a NAS that would be appropriate for the next 10 years. Thoughts on what that might look like?

Thank you!

Luke

I want to setup a NAS which needs to run minimum 4 VM's on it. Graphics is not so important. Maybe a bit of 4k playing of videos might be setup on it as well for some video playback

Disks will be 3,5 Inch SATA III - minimal 4
I want to verify and have some advice on Case, the Motherboard (micro-ATX), CPU and Memory.
I look for DDR5-ECC 128GB (4x 32GB)
1 or 2 M.2 drives is nice for caching read and write or maybe putting them in mirror mode and run 2 VM's from them
Nas fileshares will be SMB and NFS, no iSCSI as it sucks when a connection fails. NFS will just continue when connections restore

Case: silverstone-cs382
Motherboard: asrock-b650m-pro-rs
CPU: amd-ryzen-7-9700x-boxed
Memory: Kingston KSM52E42BD8KM-32HA

Ant tips?

Thanks,
Frans

Hello,
thank you for all the videos and comparisons, they helped me a lot to drill down my options.

However, I'm still a bit uncertain with the final decision.

I'm looking for a Synology NAS, as Active Backup and BTRFS are key factors here.


The NAS is intended for backing up Windows, macOS and a couple of linux servers, as well as pulling in data from Google Drive/Photos.
There is a small amount of videos but nothing that requires transcoding and I'm not intending to use Plex.
I already have about 4TB of existing data and 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB drives from a pevious NAS project.
For connectivity the connecting devices support 2.5G and I'm considering adding a non-managed 2.5G switch to my network.

I want to keep the option to host a few services locally, but not extensively.
I'm currently looking at the 923+ or the 1522+. Especially the latter for the additional RAM and network ports as well as more headroom for future disk (maybe even ssd) additions.

Best regards and thanks

Hey Robbie and Eddie

Your YouTube channel is amazing (as I have commented several times)!

Recently, you did a video on QNAP/Synology use of WORM.
I have a Synology DS918+ NAS as primary, and RSYNC back up to an offsite QNAP TVS-1582 NAS.

Currently, I make 2 sets of backups, one is a SYNC of my Synology data (so single copy), and the other is Multiple versions, to be able to roll back the data.

I would like to setup the backup in such a way that my QNAP backup becomes WORM, but not sure how to set this up.
This may be a good Video idea to show others also (whether it's the same setup - S to Q, or S to S, or Q to Q).

Cheers
D

I purchased a Synology DS923 and 2 Ironwolf Pro 20TB Hard drives. The hard drives are very noisy. (it kinda sounds like small animals are moving furniture). I was thinking that I should swap these hard drives for 2 - 12 TB. Do I have any other options? Can use the 20TB hard drives in the NAS and have them not run all the time?

Also... I really like your YouTube channel and living in Seattle, I can relate to your dislike seagulls

I have a DS220+ with 2 4TB hard drives on SHR-1 used for document storage and PMS with all the Sonarr, Radarr, etc. automation. I'm starting to run low on storage, most of which is just TV and movies.

I already have a 3-2-1 backup setup, and I don't feel like I need 100% uptime for business purposes so I'd like to switch from SHR-1 to JBOD to increase storage capacity.
Would doing the following work?

1. Pull one of the drives from my NAS so it degrades the volume
2. Connect that drive elsewhere and format it
3. Connect that drive via USB to my NAS, copy all the existing data in the storage volume to the externally connected drive
4. Delete the existing storage volume on the NAS (will DSM allow this while the volume is degraded or would I need to factory reset the whole thing?)
5. Create a new JBOD storage volume
6. Re-insert the drive I pulled at the beginning that now has the copied data

Aside from purchasing larger drives, is there a better approach to make this change?

Thanks!

What do you recommend for 2-bay NAS (Raid 1 config) to be used for home file sharing and backup, music and home-video playing? No website serving or business uses. Also must be able to run automatic backup to external USB-connected 8TB HD (i.e., backup in case NAS controller failure). Want software easy to use/understand for first-time NAS user. Thanks!

Hi,
I'm looking for a NAS device for home use (storage for movies and files). Primarily, it should have support for 2 bays only for two Seagate IronWolf Pro ST24000NT002 24TB drives. I want both RAID 0 and RAID 1 capabilities. It's important to me to connect to the NAS from my computer, smartphones, and TV, with access through an app from anywhere I am. HDMI for connecting directly to the TV would be a plus. I’d like fast transfer speeds for writing and saving (>200MB/s). I need a USB connection between the NAS and PC to quickly transfer files. Is there a NAS that meets these requirements?

(Of course, if you support me with advice, I’ll support you with a donation.)

Dear NASCompares users,

I'm starting this thread because I wasn't able to clarify my mind. I'm starting to think about my future upgrade for a DIY NAS.

Nowadays, I'm running on a HP ProLiant Microserver Gen10, with an old AMD Opteron X3216. The OS installed is Debian, with an apache server and a nextcloud isntance running on it.

Storage is composed of 2 ZFS pools, the first one for work, and the second one as back up with a rsync every month.

My system is probably not the most sophisticated ever, but it works fine in general. Nextcloud is probably the most important thing I need.
Indeed, as a photographer, Nextcloud is a way to archive and backup my pictures and administrative papers. It's also a way to exchange with my clients and deliver them.

In another way, I'm using it as a media server (with JRiver if you ask).

In terms of management for the backup, I wrote on my actual NAS a script which is mounting a backup pool (another disk) once a month during the night, rsyncing the data from my main pool, and detach the backup pool when it's over. In this way, I guess, I'm preventing some attacks ? not sure... On another hand, nextcloud is syncing with a last backup computer, in another place. Backup done.

Let's talk about my needs and my wishes, and for my new system I determined some requirements :

• Jonsbo N4 case (let's start from the end lol. I definitely love it !! Except his HDD trays ....).

• ECC RAM (16Gb, I guess not less, not more)
• 3x HDD disks of 6-8Tb (not definitively sure), it will be a RAIDZ1 pool (WORK-POOL)
• 1X small SSD used as a cache for the work pool
• 1x HDD disk of 8-10Tb, it will be a backup pool.
• 1x SSD (probably M2 on the MOBO) for the OS

• Low-Power and energy efficient MOBO+CPU
• Debian OS, I guess (mostly because I know it). I didn't consider TrueNAS + Nextcloud yet

My difficulties concerns CPU+MOBO choice. Of course, I looked at the article "The Best CPU+Motherboard Combo for Your NAS Build – 2024 Edition" on this main site, but I didn't found my hapiness. It was my first slap : a lot of DIY'ers are using some no-name motherboards sold on Alieexpress. At first, I was really doubting about them, but after hours of readings forums, it looks to be a not so bad option. Indeed, these no-name cards seem to meet requirements about SATA ports, and nvme sockets, while 1st class brands need to use some PCI or nvme adapter for SATA ports. Well, I'm still not convinced by them.. Can I ask some more feedback's about these cards ?

During my searches, it appears that :
• SuperMicro cards are f*cking expensive and hard to find
• Topton cards are not compatible with ECC
• Fujitsu boards seem to be a good compromise, but maybe hard to find in Europe
• Regular brands like ASRock, ASUS, and so one could be easy to find and setup, but the low-power goal will be hard to reach.

In the end, I'm talking about everything except CPU..... Because I don't know how to choose The One !
My main goal, nextcloud, doesn't ask particular requirements.
It's not a high-end gaming PC, we're talking about a 24/24 NAS. Low power consumption is a goal, but I'm afraid to be limited by something like a Pentium G5400, Celron's or Atom's categories. Am I wrong ? I'm not either talking about AMD CPU, because I don't know them, and Ryzen's CPU (recommended by the previous article) with 8+ cores seems to be overkill.

To conclude, it's hard to choose a direction, probably because I'm not able to fix a CPU, and balance between performance and efficiency. I'm not really bottlenecked by my CPU except under heavy loads, also I would like to ask to this nice community some advice  

Hey everyone, I wonder if you could help sanity check my NAS choice. Many thanks in advance!

I`m looking at replacing a 10+year old home wintel server with a NAS device. My new NAS will be fulfilling two roles:

·         Host / Sync a local copy (and provide backup for ) Microsoft onedrive cloud storage files
· HostPlex Media Server for local music (synced from onedrive), Video streaming, and recording of broadcast TV via LAN attached HD homerun

My existing wintel home server already runs the above roles and works well. My total storage requirements are modest (currently 1.6TB), so I`ll run a two drive array with some kind of redundancy with a third drive installed outside the array for online backups. I don’t care about snapshots or versioning.

So heres where I need some input / validation of my choice of NAS. I`m currently looking at a Synology DS923+ based on the following criteria:

·         I want a recent product which has a decent supported lifespan ahead of it, because I`d like to retain the hardware for 8-10 years.
·         I very much require a turnkey solution with minimal configuration overhead. Life priorities mean I don’t have time to tinker these days. It needs to “just work” out of the box.
·         Plex is a hard requirement, as is support for MS Onedrive sync. I`ve no interest or appetite to replace these solutions.
·         I want a rich software ecosystem just in case I happen to have a new role for my server in future (unlikely but future-proofing)
·         I`m happy to lose support for hardware transcoding / GPU support because a) my video content is *all* 1080p or lower, and I don’t like the client experience of transcoded video content anyway. I`m currently testing my existing plex 
server/clients with transcoding disabled both server and client side to confirm this wont present any challenge. Additionally I have no requirement to stream video to any client outside my home network. 
 

So, with the above in mind, do we think the Synology 923+ is a good choice?