4 hours ago
Thank you for this great advice. I will certainly look into those first two options as well since they didn't come across my view in my initial research.
I had looked at the TS-873AeU a bit, but not just the TS-873A model.
I was kind of honing in on the TS-855eU, but I haven't made a purchase yet.
I currently have my TS-863U wall-mounted with a StarTech 2U mount in a room in my basement that is a bit of a narrow hallway/utility room, which is one reason why I was still looking at rackmounts.
I did however pickup 6 WD Red Pro 24TB drives from Western Digital's site (deal good only until 11/17/24). They have a buy two for $869 deal, with a max of 6 per customer. This looked to be a good $/TB deal.
Seagate does also have their 18TB Ironwolf Pros for $299 each, which was actually a better $/TB deal, but getting 8x18TB got me the same space (144TB) as 6x24TB, slightly less once in RAID6, but then I still have 2 bays open to further expand if ever needed to.
So, what I was looking at dong was getting the TS-855eU. I don't know if it is wise to go for -RP version (much harder to find). I was planning to upgrade the RAM with maybe 2x16GB ECC SODIMMS from Crucial (CT2K16G4SFRA32A). I thought about throwing some m.2 drives in there for caching, but I don't think I would actually gain any benefits from it, since I'm mainly just using it for video storage. Since I'm (currently at least) using Kodi for my media interface, I'm not transcoding on the NAS, so I don't think the GPU really helps me any from the TVS-874. I'm not sure how the performance compares between the Intel Atom vs an i5 or i7 is. The TS-855eU is $600 cheaper than the i5 TVS-874.
I had looked at the TS-873AeU a bit, but not just the TS-873A model.
I was kind of honing in on the TS-855eU, but I haven't made a purchase yet.
I currently have my TS-863U wall-mounted with a StarTech 2U mount in a room in my basement that is a bit of a narrow hallway/utility room, which is one reason why I was still looking at rackmounts.
I did however pickup 6 WD Red Pro 24TB drives from Western Digital's site (deal good only until 11/17/24). They have a buy two for $869 deal, with a max of 6 per customer. This looked to be a good $/TB deal.
Seagate does also have their 18TB Ironwolf Pros for $299 each, which was actually a better $/TB deal, but getting 8x18TB got me the same space (144TB) as 6x24TB, slightly less once in RAID6, but then I still have 2 bays open to further expand if ever needed to.
So, what I was looking at dong was getting the TS-855eU. I don't know if it is wise to go for -RP version (much harder to find). I was planning to upgrade the RAM with maybe 2x16GB ECC SODIMMS from Crucial (CT2K16G4SFRA32A). I thought about throwing some m.2 drives in there for caching, but I don't think I would actually gain any benefits from it, since I'm mainly just using it for video storage. Since I'm (currently at least) using Kodi for my media interface, I'm not transcoding on the NAS, so I don't think the GPU really helps me any from the TVS-874. I'm not sure how the performance compares between the Intel Atom vs an i5 or i7 is. The TS-855eU is $600 cheaper than the i5 TVS-874.