Thank you all for the advice! I went ahead and ordered the Synology!
Video/photo editing + large file storage. I'd just be interested to mount it as file system on my UNIX systems and use it just like a big drive.
Hey everyone. I'm in a bit of a dilema here about the NAS mentioned in the title.
I've narrowed down my list to just two:
- Synology DS1522+ and
- QNAP TS-435XeU-4G
Why I like the desktop Synology?
- 5 bays
- 8 GB RAM
- ECC RAM
- (from what I heard) less noise, given it has bigger fans
Why I like the rackmount QNAP?
- ARM CPU (slightly less power consumption)
- 4 core CPU (vs. 2 on the Synology)
- network!!! 2x 2.5 GbE, 2x 10 Gb SFP+
- I could mount it nicely in the rack cabinet I'm building
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Both units have similar price, similar power consumption, similar level of noise (please correct me if I'm wrong - this will be sitting in my living room for the foreseeable future).
Anything I am missing? What else should I consider to make an educated decision?
NOTE: I never owned a NAS, I don't know the software specs on the two. I am a software engineer, so I like something allowing as much control as possible, running in a private subnet on my network.
I suppose that’s what I needed to hear. Thank you very much! Do you happen to know some NAS that does well at transcoding and is within this €1500 range?
Oh I’d say not a lot of data at the moment. I have two 14 TB disks which I use as replicas. So I have 14 TB of total capacity roughly. I think a 4-bay NAS is good enough for start
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:
Option B: Buying a Rackmount Server
I then found a bunch of very interesting refurbished servers. Not going to show everything I found as it would be pointless, but here's an example:
DELL R630 8SFF
- CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 (12C 30M Cache 2.20 GHz)
- RAM: 32Gb 2x16GB DDR4 RDIMM 2133MHz
- RAID Controller: Dell RAID H730
- Power Supply: 1xPS 750w
- Price: 865 EUR
I could even go with lower specs for the purpose of a NAS.
Question
Can you folks please help me look for the right things? Do you have any suggestions? Any other places I could be looking at?