JemmyNeed help choosing a NAS.
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BigouHello everyone! I need your help choosing a NAS. (I don’t need a big one, a 2 bay model should suffice.) What are your recommendations?
(Not so long ago, I would have taken one from Synology, but it seems they now force us to use their own, too expensive, HDD.)
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They reversed that policy (also you could get around it quite easily).
For now.
But everyone believes they’ll wait and try again.
@remon@ani.social Didn’t know. In that case I might go with something from them, unless someone got a better recommendation.
As for getting around it, might have been easy for you, but I’m not so sure whether it would have been for my sister and me.
I got a Synology 2 bay for saving my memories of sailing the high seas. I
t has been fine thus far.
Very happy with my UGREEN. Though it’s my first so I don’t have anything to compare it to
Careful with the ugreen: I found if you get the cheaper option, you can’t hot-swap a disk anymore. They don’t make that really clear.
TerraMaster F4-423 and then replace the internal USB drive with a fresh one and install OpenMediaVault or TrueNas or whatever.
Roll your own with a Raspberry Pi.
Depending on the Pi, you will be limited to USB2 speeds.
@Limerance@piefed.social @Naich@lemmings.world Even with USB3, might be a bit short in speed. Don’t need to go to NVMe speed, but I think modern SATA HDD would be nice. Also, it will be put on a local network.
I get 120MB/s via local network sharing USB3 SATA HDD through a RPi 4b 4GB!
I bought an Asustor a few years ago. I would recommend it.
Nas - Represent is a great start.
I got an older version of one of these and put some opensource software on it. I did proxmox cause it runs a bunch of stuff, not just nas stuff.
I went with qnap. Synology, I think, can’t be trusted to stick with that policy reversal.