Submission + - Ask Slashdot: NAS recommendations for home? 4
93 Escort Wagon writes: I've been somewhat okay about backing up our home data. We've got a couple separate disks available for as local backup storage, and my own data also gets occasionally copied to encrypted storage at BackBlaze. My daughter has her own "cloud" backups, which seem to be a manual push every once in a while of random files / folders she thinks are important. Including our media library, between my stuff, my daughter's, and my wife's... we're probably talking in the neighborhood of 10 TB for everything at present.
The whole setup is obviously cobbled together, and the process is very manual. Plus it's annoying since I'm handling Mac, Linux, and Windows backups completely differently (and sub-optimally). Also, unsurprisingly, the amount of data we possess does seem to be increasing with time.
I've been considering biting the bullet and buying a NAS, and redesigning the entire process (both local and remote). I'm familiar with Synology and DSM from work, and the DS1522+ looks appealing. I've also come across a lot of recommendations for QNAP's devices, though. I'm comfortable tackling this on my own, but I'd like to throw this out to the Slashdot community — what NAS do you like for home use (and what disks did you put in it)? What have your experiences been?
Thanks!
The whole setup is obviously cobbled together, and the process is very manual. Plus it's annoying since I'm handling Mac, Linux, and Windows backups completely differently (and sub-optimally). Also, unsurprisingly, the amount of data we possess does seem to be increasing with time.
I've been considering biting the bullet and buying a NAS, and redesigning the entire process (both local and remote). I'm familiar with Synology and DSM from work, and the DS1522+ looks appealing. I've also come across a lot of recommendations for QNAP's devices, though. I'm comfortable tackling this on my own, but I'd like to throw this out to the Slashdot community — what NAS do you like for home use (and what disks did you put in it)? What have your experiences been?
Thanks!
DIY? (Score:2)
Have you considered just building one?
The cheapest option is to look at Chinese motherboards with soldered in CPUs that are specifically designed for NAS use, having lots of SATA ports and PCIe expansion. They are low power and relatively low performance, but more than enough for NAS purposes. ITX form factor. Jonsbo and a few other manufacturers also make dedicated NAS cases.
The run something like TrueNAS or even just Windows. Some people use Proxmox or similar to virtualize and run other things like Home
my 40TB home solution (Score:2)
I have 2 MacBooks, and I network attach 6 Seagate 5TB portable external drives to those Macs (three to each of the 2 Macs). That's about 30TB available directly over my home router.
Seems to work fine, and the Seagates are far less costly than most NAS drives. Though, they do die occasionally. Oops.
Basically, I found a way to make my older Mac useful by simply leaving it on all the time, with the external drives attached.
Synology RAID1 NAS (Score:2)
I have a pair of Synology DS-220 series, an older WD My Cloud, and an ancient D-Link. I think the Synology units are the way for me to standardize, as support for the DLink is non-existent, and Synology seems to be stable. My main concern is that the format on the drives isn't necessarily compatible with other NAS systems, so having a NAS main board failure could cripple my ability to recover data, I think.
You could def DIY your own, use some SBC with Linux and appropriate software, but I'm lazy.
Cheers - Jo