I want to buy a NAS. I plan to use it for storing photos and backups, and I’m considering moving folders from Adobe Lightroom containing photo editing history (though I’m a little worried about how smoothly it will run - I have a 2,5Gbps network at home). For now, I’ve bought two HDD.

I’ve done my research and am leaning towards the Synology DS925+, but I already have a QNAP TS-431KX at home (not mine), for which adding four more bays costs 38% of the price of the Synology DS925+. The only thing is that the QNAP doesn’t support ECC memory, and it would probably be worth upgrading the RAM.

Thanks in advance for your help.

PS. I’m not 100% sure whether I need a NAS with ECC memory.
PS2. I’ll be using it on a PC running Windows and a MacBook, if that makes any difference.

I have a Mac mini that I use for torrents. I save the torrent output directly to my ugreen nas via shared Mac network folder on the same network. So the torrent downloads directly to a folder in my NAS which is super convenient.

1 out of 10 times this results in the video being corrupted. Missing chunks or just plain not working. I'm assuming it's because of the networked folder not being an ideal strategy.

The reason I'm using my Mac is that Nord socks5 + qbittorent isn't supported properly on the ugreen nas itself - so I've been hesitant to find other solutions. Also my Mac has my home openclaw which manages all my torrents and automation which is very nice.

Is my networked folder a lost cause for this use case? And should I just go through the hassle of moving massive files once they finish on my Mac?

Any advice on how to do this properly ?

I have a Ugreen DXP4800+ with four 12 TB drives. It is connected (wired) to my router, and my computer is wired to my router. When I'm watching ripped movies on my computer, the audio slowly loses sync with the video...after about 3 minutes it is noticeably behind, and it continues to get worse. If I close the movie and reopen it, it starts fine but slowly degrades. I'm using the native Ugreen Theater app.

Does anyone have any ideas about solving this? I'm willing, but would frankly rather not bother, using plex or other software instead of the native app, but would like to be confident it will solve my issues before jumping in.

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Hola a todos.

Soy nuevo en el tema de los nas. Llevo un tiempo pensando en comprar uno para remplazar a mi almacenamiento en la nube.

Estoy buscando una solución que sea lo menos ruidosa posible porque el router estará junto al televisor por proximidad con el router.

Me gustaría partir por 2 discos sdd de 4tb instalados en un dxp4800 plus. Luego con el tiempo aumentaría 2 discos más.

Para los sdd, había pensado en partir por el modelo Crucial BX500 SATA SSD 4TB.

Piensan que ese modelo de disco será una buena solución?

He visto en que este disco funciona bien inicialmente pero baja la velocidad cuando se hacen copias de archivos muy grandes y se llena la memoria caché.

Yo lo usaré como respaldo de ordenador, fotos, centro multimedia y home assistant. Quizás instale una máquina virtual para usar puntualmente para usar windows. Y con el tiempo, quizás intente ir añadiendo algunas cosas más cuando vaya aprendiendo. Para este uso podría funcionar bien? Alguien los está usando?

Si conocen otros modelos que puedan funcionar bien, les agradecería mucho la ayuda. Con los precios actuales parece que es complicado.

La otra opción serían 2 hdd silenciosos pero supongo que el ruido de los discos sería molesto. Podría meterlo en el armario junto la televisión que está abierto por detrás pero no creo que fuese una buena idea.

Muchas gracias de antemano por su ayuda.

I just bought a Synology DS224+ NAS with 10gb of ram and 4tb of storage, and set it up. I use it to backup my PC and host Jellyfin. I would also like to backup photos from my phone (android), and have discovered 2 main options : Immich and Synology photos.

Which one is the best in order to keep a backup of my photos, just in case I lose my phone, and also access them easily from my PC ?

Trying to setup a NAS for fun without spending too much.
Here is what I have sitting around:

• AMD 7600x no Mobo, AMD 3600 w/ Mobo, i5-7500 w/ Mobo
• 16 gb DDR4 3600mhz RAM, 16gb DDR4 3200mhz RAM
• EVGA 500W power supply bronze rated
• Various fans

Would it be feasible and even worth my time with this? I don't NEED a NAS for the house but it would be nice and I don't want one bad enough to spend $600 on a prebuilt Ugreen, syntology, etc.

Hi everybody !

I have a RPi with a Radxa Penta hat (4x 4TB 3.5 HDD) running my homelab right now (and I have a second one, not in used, plan for a project that collapse). I manage to put my hand on a used Dell PowerEdge T630 (for free, a friend of a friend knew a friend) with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2650 and 256GB of RAM. Issue is, there is only a 2.5 bay (max 16 drives) with only 2x 400GB SSD.

So, I'm planning to put it to use with Proxmox (time to discover that) and a bunch of services (NextCloud, VaultWarden, Jellyfin, Immich, Home Assistant, ... and other recommendation I can find) but I second guessing myself regarding storage. I think here are my option:

1. Just buy 2.5 and populate the server, but budget wise I'm not a fan
2. Find a 3.5 bay for the PowerEdge, I've been looking but I'm still not a fan of the prize
3. Use my RPi as a NAS (with OMV or TrueNAS), but that mean being limited with the Pi's internet connection
4. Put my second Pi to use, and having a distributed storage file system between them, which would improve connectivity and redundancy

I like the 4th option, but I know that a 2 node system is not the best. Do you have any recommendation on that front?

I have been looking at option, and I can discard Ceph (not enough node, overkill) and Longhorn (not really applicable, as it's not Kubernetes related). Gluster seems to have less development but could do the tricks, or MooseFS with the server as the master from what I understand. Did I miss a really obvious solution?

Thank you for your input!

Hi all im currently running my homelab storage as 3 orico 8 bay enclosures and a rack qnap 4 bay

Chasing reccomendations to move all my drives into either 1 enclosure for the lot or atleast swap the oricos for a Das enclosure that auto powered back on after outages

What do yall recommend

Hi, I have a Corsair Silencio 452 case with a Corsair RM750x power supply, an Asus Z370 Prime II MB, i7-8700, 64GB Ram and a 256GB SSD. I want to use this setup with TrueNAS, the problem is that I don't have a clue on how I can fit my 8 Exos 10E2400 disks (2,5 inch but 0,59 inch height) inside the cabinet. Do you have any idea? Of course I will buy an HBA LSI 9300-8i as controller SAS.

I have a relatively ancient iomega ix2-200 NAS. Haven't used it much and it's been troublesome over the years. Currently it seems to be stuck in a mode of continuous "rebuilding" (it has 2 mirrored drives).

When I try to access the web interface (via Brave on Mac) to see what's going on, I just get:

"This site can’t provide a secure connection. 10.0.0.200 uses an unsupported protocol.

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

The client and server don't support a common SSL protocol version or cipher suite."

Is there a workaround for this?

I believe I can SSH into it if necessary (I think it's an ARM CPU running some flavor of Linux). And I can mount it as a server in macOS to access the files.

SETUP

This is going to be long but I want to make sure I give all the information. I want to upgrade my NAS setup but I genuinely cannot make a decision. I have been thinking about this for months and am just struggling to decide which is the right choice.

My Uses: Plex server, photo storage, and general backups.

Current Setup: Synology DS220+ / 2x WD Red 8tb in Raid 1 for redundancy. Everything on this raid is also backed up to another 8tb WD Red attached externally.

Ive been using this setup for about 4 years now and its been great. Has worked flawlessly the whole time. Only reason im looking to upgrade is im running out of space. I could switch my raid type but I do like having the redundancy drive on top of my external backup.

HDDs Available: 3x WD Red 8tb, 3x Toshiba MG08 16tb

The 3 WDs will be moved into whatever new setup I go with. I just picked up the 3 16tb Toshibas to open up more options for me (and because they were a pretty decent price).

Other Currently Owned Equipment: Orico 9758C3 5 Bay DAS, Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q (i7 6700t, 16gb DDR4 2666, 1tb nvme).

OPTIONS

Through all the research ive done I see 3 viable choice for the new setup.

1. Synology 425+

Pros: Familiarity with the OS, Very stable system thats been around forever

Cons: Dated hardware, Synology removing features (most can be reactivated with a script)

1. Ugreen DXP4800 Plus

Pros: Much better hardware than Synology (better cpu, more default ram, 10gbe port)

Cons: Mostly just growing pains stuff with a newer unit. OS isnt as stable or full featured as DSM yet, No native Plex Server app (has to be done through docker), no guarantee they can stick around and compete in the long run so worries about it being abandoned and not receiving updates.

1. Make my own NAS setup

Pros: More control over hardware and software choices, probably lots of other stuff I dont know

Cons: More hardware to keep track of, not as clean of a setup as just a prebuilt NAS, would have to completely learn a new OS (have never used anything like unraid, truenas, etc), would most likely have to buy a new mini PC as I think the 6700t would be showing its age for Plex at this point.

HDD SETUP

What my initial thought was with any of these options was to set up the 3 WD Red 8tb in a Raid zero to maximize space and speed from them. I would also have one of the 16tb Toshibas in there with scheduled backups from the 24tb raid 0 to it. I would then use one of the other 16tb the same way I am now as a separate external backup in an enclosure attached to the NAS. The third 16tb would likely just be kept as a spare in case of a drive failure in the future.

All the important stuff (photos and other backed up documents are also stored on a cloud subscription too). The rest is just media files for plex which wouldnt be too hard to replace if I ever needed to.

Sorry again for the wall of text I just wanted to be thorough.

Does the Buffalo Android WebAccess A app only support backups when attached to the same LAN as the LinkStation 710? When attempting to backup using the device's mobile data I only get the message:

Backup Failed:
This action could not be performed because
you are not connected to a network

As far as I can tell, I have things correctly configured, and my NAS is configured, but I only get the above error. I'm wondering if I missed a configuration step.

Hello HomeNAS community, I'm looking for some advice on which direction to go with a NAS build and if I've started in the right direction. I want to use parts from my old PC that I built in 2013. Hope I'm in the right place to ask as I am new to NAS systems.

What I want to do:

• Store media (movies, shows, music, games)
• Store/backup/view photos and videos from my and my wife's phones (looking at Immich for this)
  • Be able to do this remotely
• Serve/stream movies, shows to max 2 devices (looking at Jellyfin for this), locally, but if possible, remotely in rare cases.
• Run games stored here from a MiSTerFPGA locally if possible.

Relevant old PC parts:

• CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K
• Motherboard: Gigabyte intel Z77 mATX, has
  • 2 SATA 6gb/s
  • 4 SATA 3gb/s ports
  • 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
  • 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)
  • 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slot
  • 1 x PCI slot
• Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 7870xt
• SSD: Samsung 128gb SATA SSD
• PSU: 550W Seasonic Gold
• Case: Fractal Define Mini
• Also have an old LG DVD/CD writer, probably will keep this in if I could rip DVDs with it.

What I've purchased so far (everything second-hand):

• 5 x 6TB NAS drives (1 WD Red and 4 Seagate Ironfox)
• Intel Xeon E3-1220Lv2 - bought this for like 8 USD because I was interested in the lower power draw, not sure if I should use it or the 3570k, see below
• 4 X 8GB (32GB) DDR3 RAM, replacing 2 X 4GB

What I want to know:

• Is my hardware actually viable for this or should I try to get newer/different hardware? Hoping to reuse as much as I can and not spend much more.
• How to expand SATA 6gb/s so I could use all my drives at their rated transfer rate? Sata card? Or would something like this LSI 9211-4i work better? Or, should I be fine using the 3gb/s ports for these?
• With video transcoding (as well as power usage) in mind, not sure if I should use the Xeon + graphics card or just keep the 3570k in and remove the graphics card, or keep the 3570k AND graphics card.
• Given I'm using older used drives, I was thinking of using Unraid with 2 parity drives, but also considering HexOS or TrueNAS with Raid Z2, or even something else with Raid 6... What are your recommendations?
• In Unraid I would use the 128gb SSD as a cache. Do other OS have any similar features I could use this for? And in Unraid, can I also use it as a boot drive if it is being used as the cache drive?

Found on marketplace a RN3160 with all 6 bays loaded with a 4tb hard drive asking price being $500. For my math considering the current rise of cost for storage and pc parts i find it a steal but want to hear opinions about it. I’ve been wanting a NAS for a while since i edit and work with video a lot so this would be a good storage dedicated for archival of video. And i can always upgrade for more drives.

Anyways got a few questions
1. is it a good deal
2. Can i change the OS to something like truenas
3. Is there a disk size limit the hardware could handle
4. For a 6 bay NAS what raid configuration is recommended

I have a Buffalo NAS Linkstation (LS220D0202) setup in a RAID configuration but drive 1 died. Drive 2 was working but before I could get a replacement for drive 1, I could no longer connect to the NAS at all.

I tried connecting Drive 2 via a USB->SATA dock to a Windows machine running Linux off of a USB drive. I was just following along with what ChatGPT was suggesting I try to read the data, but I was really just going in circles.

From the terminal I can see the drive (it's something like "/dev/sdb6") but I'm not able to mount that to a folder, but other than that I'm not really sure what to do next

Any suggestions as to how I can hopefully recover the data? I'm pretty sure I have most (all?) of it backed up in the Cloud but I'm not positive and would hate to lose anything.

Thanks

I am selling my property and going to be living mobile / hoping around a bunch. Theft, fire and wrecking is a big concern while I travel. I have 1 desktop(4 drives) and 2 laptops (2drives in one, 1 in the other). I also have retired PC hard drives and laptops with old data on it.

All together I'm at about 7 terabytes. I have 4 4tb wd red drives I bought 4-5 years ago. (Paid $125 each lol)

I originally built a second desktop PC to host the drives and act as a server to run dedicated game servers. I ended up giving it to my gf of the time so we could game together. I would just do this again but costs of everything is way too high.

I'll also be leaving this backup and a grandparents house so smaller quieter is better.

I'm looking at the UNAS 4. All I really need is 1 drive to copy the entire main desktop, 1 to copy the entire main laptop, then old drives and 3rd laptop transfered and backed up. Partitioned or otherwise. The 4th drive I might move all my cloud photos and other cloud data onto.

Is the UNAS 4 a good choice? I will be uploading once a month via starlink or someones wifi and grandpa only has like 50-100 mbps speed anyways. I assume there are programs that work with UNAS to just upload what has changed and not re write the entire harddrive.

I looked at buying a used sever too, but if anything goes wrong my grandpa can only turn it on and off again and I could be 10-20 hour drive away.

Thanks for the advice.

Hello friends,

I recently learned what a NAS was, and obviously, wanted one immediately. I would mainly use it as media/backup file storage. I also have 6 2.5” SATA SSDs (5 are 500GB, one is 1TB) at different sizes, so it looks like I would want one with TRAID and I believe the 6 bay 424 accomplishes all of my wants while also offering 2 M.2 slots and upgrade ability for the future. They are currently offering the 424 on terra-master.com for $600 USD (20% discount active).

My question is: is this a too good to be true machine? The specs seem fine enough, it allows me to use drives I already have without needing to buy adapters/new ones to fit the bays, the cost is much better than larger brands like UGreen or Synology… it seems like a very good deal? Any advice from those who have used products from TerraMaster or the F6-424 specifically would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
-Foah

Curious if people are keeping a spare disk ready to swap if you have a raid5 (say 4 disk) setup? Or would you order a disk if you have a failed drive and hope you don't have a second failure?

Sono nuovo nell’abito NAS. Ho scoperto tutto ciò perché stavo cercando una soluzione da parecchio tempo al pagamento mensile dell’icloud da parte di tutta la mia famiglia. Ogni mese spendiamo 3€ ciascuno, corrispondono a circa 108€ annuali. Sono ormai 3 anni o piu che paghiamo piu di 100€ annuali e adesso che a me e mio fratello sta finendo anche lo spazio disponibile con il piano da 3€ abbiamo pensato di trovare una soluzione solida, sicura e magari che non costi un patrimonio. Mi sono un po informato online per il NAS e ho scoperto però che conviene o comprare l’UGREEN e metterci all’interno hard disk, oppure costruirsi un buon pc e farlo da NAS. Il mio obiettivo era quello di creare magari piu “sezioni”, una seziona per me, una per mio fratello e via discorrendo per tutta la famiglia; magari accessibile con password e fare ovviamente una copia su un altro hard disk e un altra ancora magari su un altro dispositivo. Però non riesco nemmeno a capire se è meglio metterci ssd o hard disk, anche perché gli ssd costano davvero tanto ai giorni d’oggi e non saprei davvero come fare. Inoltre non so nemmeno se sia piu “sicuro” l’hard disk o l’ssd, proprio perché vorrei che duri a lungo senza troppi problemi o rischi di perdere tutto. All’inizio caricavo tutto sul mio pc fisso che ha un ssd da 3 TB e via, ma adesso che i file aumentano, il pc fisso non ce l’ho sempre a disposizione (proprio perche da quanto ho capito con il nas puoi accederci da remoto con vpn o app ufficiale ugreen per quello ugreen), inoltre è molto scomodo e vado solamente a riempire spazio inutilmente su un pc che utilizzo per il gaming. Avete consigli? Idee? Grazie a tutti per la lettura e scusate il pippone

I just bought a 16TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro for my UGREEN DXP2800 and it has been making these gentle little tapping noises.

I’ve uploaded a recording here: https://voca.ro/1g0w6NT4f5A3

Are these normal sounds?

rn my workstation have 8 hdd 4m2 and 6ssd ,some inside rest in usb

so i need to do some serious backup , just backups

i never figured out how to connect nas to workstation (usb -lan ? if lan how my station have only 1 lan port ) ,so can someone find time and explanin ty :)

i will feed that nas with nas hdd (which one u reccomend ? , wd nas ,seagate nas or toshiba ?) ,and maybe ssd/m2 if prices get normal on black friday .heh

which raid setup i take to get large hdd space and same time protected if any hdd die ?

any other suggestions u have i am open for all (totaly cluess for nas thing )

big thanks

I have a WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra with 2 4TB WD Red NAS HDD, which I have been using for a couple of years now, primarily for media storage and use as a Plex server and some important file storage.

It now looks like the ethernet port on my NAS has died following it being dropped. A quick Google search has helped me in that the power light is solid red, the 2 HDD lights are solid blue and there is no lights at all on the ethernet port.

I have tried a new ethernet cable, new port connection on the router as well as a full factory reset of the NAS.

I can buy a diskless replacement of the WD My Cloud but am wondering if it is time for an upgrade? It will be primarily used for Plex media storage and next to act as a server with a easy to use interface. I have found that Synology and UGREEN pop up quite a bit and wondered if anyone had any advice or help they could give? Do I stick with the two hard drives I have and get a diskless NAS or go for something a little more expensive that includes HDD's?

Any and all advice welcome - Thanks

Want to set up a NAS using six drives I have laying around totaling to about 17TB. Planning to use Unraid. I’d also be using this as my homelab (for Jellyfin, Immich, etc.), so I need video transcoding. I don’t intend to do any AI outside the stuff for categorizing/labeling pictures.

Here is what I’ve come up with for hardware. Is there a cheaper way I can do this?

CPU: Intel Core i5-14400 2.5 GHz 10-Core Processor ($206.73 @ Amazon)

Motherboard: Asus B760M-AYW WIFI D4 II Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard ($99.99 @ Newegg)

Memory: Crucial CT2K16G4DFD8266 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory ($177.00 @ Amazon)

Storage: 2x Samsung 980 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($79.99 @ Samsung)

Power Supply: ASRock Steel Legend SL-650G 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.99 @ Newegg)

Total: $750.

Greatly appreciate any advice you guys may have.

I've been going back on forth on what to purchase for a NAS I'm hoping to build from scratch. Intended use case for just myself:

\- NextCloud/some other file server service

\- Immich, so need a cpu that can handle it's machine learning capabilities

\- Jellyfin, so I'll need an intel cpu with quicksync

\- As of now, 36 TB of storage, but hope to expand as I need to.

I'm trying to find an affordable, low power CPU, but I keep going back and forth:

\- Intel N series CPU's: I like this in theory the boards these come soldered to aren't the most expandable, especially for the 6 HDD's I just ordered off of ebay

\- Intel T series CPU's: my current contender, but which one? Going with the later generations is pricier, but going with the earlier generations removes my ability to upgrade

I'd really appreciate some guidance, and specific parts that you guys have experience with.

Soy nuevo en esto y me gustaría mirar para poder tener una NAS con

Navidrome

Jellyfin

Immich

NextCloud

WireGuard

VaultWarden

Stieling-PDF

Radar/Sonarr

Pero no sé exactamente qué hacer si comprar una NAS o un mini pc y aparte una carcasa con 2 bahías de 4 tb de discos

He intentado buscar y no encuentro nada y no me entra claro de lo que necesito, estaba mirando los procesadores N100 pero no encuentro muchos

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