Forkish Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 What’s your preferred NAS or DAS setup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-ee Jones Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 QNAP, because I love it when it randomly decides to scramble all the drives with it's Qnapo-jumbo so I can't use them anymore. 😅 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forkish Posted January 2, 2019 Author Share Posted January 2, 2019 11 hours ago, Dave-ee Jones said: QNAP, because I love it when it randomly decides to scramble all the drives with it's Qnapo-jumbo so I can't use them anymore. 😅 Note to self: Avoid QNAP. I posted this question as I’m building a PC and need/want to consolidate my external drives. I’m trying to figure out the best NAS/DAS for my needs. I do a lot of photography and was thinking something with ZFS like unraid. I also have an old comercial dell tower with windows 7. Maybe set that up as a server with ubuntu or Freenas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrot Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 Ubuntu Server with disks in RAID, mapped as network drives. I originally wanted to try something like FreeNAS but the installer was giving me a hard time... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forkish Posted January 2, 2019 Author Share Posted January 2, 2019 52 minutes ago, Foxtrot said: Ubuntu Server with disks in RAID, mapped as network drives. I originally wanted to try something like FreeNAS but the installer was giving me a hard time... If I want raid, am I limited by my motherboard as to whether it’s supported or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrot Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 No. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM#RAID_installation 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-ee Jones Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 (edited) https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/nas_selector This is the best option, in my opinion. You could even turn them into iSCSI targets to get some pretty ridiculous speeds. Also, you get a lot of other perks (multimedia server, virtual machines, web servers, desktop syncing, spreadsheet syncing and role-based access hubs, as well as most other kinds of servers you can think of). There's a nice web interface for all of that with third-party apps and there are iOS/Android apps (DS Video, DS Audio) which can make use of the multimedia server very well (say goodbye to PLEX). Depending on how much storage you need I'd recommend a DS718+ or DS918+. One downside I should point out - Mac users love them. Because they're very simple, like Macs. Let's be honest Synology is basically the Apple of NAS and router products. Edited January 4, 2019 by Dave-ee Jones 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forkish Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) For those with a synology device. Just saw this on news.ycombinator this morning: https://www.synology.com/en-global/security/advisory/Synology_SA_18_64 Quote > Detail: Reserved > Abstract: A vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a susceptible version of Synology Diskstation Manager (DSM). > Publish Time: 2018-12-26 Edited January 5, 2019 by Forkish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Windows 10 box with drive spaces. Or a real server. At least when it takes a shit(and it will), you can still get to the data. Have had way too many client sites lose data to nas boxes to ever recommend one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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