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Anyone got experience with NAS?

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 3:51 pm
by MONGO_abaday
Has anyone got any experience with a NAS home storage and cloud system. I'm thinking of building my own but am not too clued up on it in terms of hardware, OS, setup and utilities I will need to run it.

Re: Anyone got experience with NAS?

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 4:17 pm
by Robawillis
I run freenas atm pretty nice as some of the addons/jails are pretty good.

Re: Anyone got experience with NAS?

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 4:21 pm
by Mack

Re: Anyone got experience with NAS?

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:56 pm
by Gwynzer
Use various NAS solutions at work. I personally just recommend, as mack says, getting some Synology RAID.

Re: Anyone got experience with NAS?

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 6:35 pm
by Jokerle
Mack wrote:synolgy +2 or 4 disks https://www.synology.com/en-uk/products/DS415play
I have a old 2 disk version of that. Extremely nice software to handle all kinds of stuff. Can recommend.

Re: Anyone got experience with NAS?

Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:21 pm
by MONGO_abaday
okay thanks for the responses. I was leaning more toward building one my self as it would be cheaper its just the whole fuss with being able to make it as energy efficient as possible without having to turn it off manually etc. Along with which OS to install for me to get the best features but we shall see. Need to save up a bit before I do actually get one though.

Re: Anyone got experience with NAS?

Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:30 pm
by Robawillis
MONGO_abaday wrote:okay thanks for the responses. I was leaning more toward building one my self as it would be cheaper its just the whole fuss with being able to make it as energy efficient as possible without having to turn it off manually etc. Along with which OS to install for me to get the best features but we shall see. Need to save up a bit before I do actually get one though.
Again I did it myself and it works fine, basically the most important thing to consider is the more terabytes you have the more RAM you need. General rule of thumb when building your own NAS 1 TB of storage = 1 GB RAM

http://www.freenas.org/

http://web.freenas.org/hardware-requirements/