Hi people, I have been looking for a NAS for quite a while now for my home network and I'm now facing a dilema.
I have a few checkboxes to tick to say "that's the right one":
[ ] can be mounted on rack
[ ] can be used as Plex server
[ ] supports 10gbit connection
I am also concerned about noise level as I'll be running this in my living room (no better spot yet) and energy consumption.
Option A: Buying an Actual NAS
I looked a bit into NAS with ARM CPUs as they are more energy-efficient, but they don't seem to bee suitable for video transcoding. Then I seem to be left with only some Synology options:
Are you specifically looking for SFF drive bays? Because my one recommendation about buying a refurbished server is get LFF 3.5 drives. The sff is such a limiting factor.