allenyoung Posted June 24 Report Share Posted June 24 Any iT expert havung good suggestion for brand / model / HDD (brand) for NAS ? And if to build one ~ what to look out for (tip n trick). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 24 Report Share Posted June 24 stick to the reputable brands like synology or qnap, i learned the hard way, bought a cheaper Asustor but it is problematic. For HDD, buy those that are rated for NAS (for eg WD Red series) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phewphew Posted June 24 Report Share Posted June 24 Oh oh I have something to contribute. Make sure that you buy CMR disk and not SMR. Many "nas" disk are now marketed for NAS even though they are SMR. E.g. WD Red vs WD Red Pro series.^1 If you aren't doing anything too fancy SMR is cheaper for the space it gives, but if you are planning to do RAID (other than RAID1 i guess), CMR is important to ensure that your array don't fail when rebuilding. I am not so sure about ZFS but some cursory read on Reddit suggests it will be bad too.^2 If you are based in Singapore, please don't buy from China sellers. They tend to replace the circuit board and resell old bad drives and/or wipe the SMART info to trick you into thinking its new. I recommend to not played with important data! You can try to look at disk price per TB ^3 and then search up model numbers and their reviews. Depending on what is your use case, perhaps a simple ARM SBC might be enough for you. Just make sure that it has at least gigabit connection (if that is important to you). Arm does have better power consumption compared to x86. But I guess if you want a windows server you probably still have to get and x86 computer/server. End of the day you gotta ask yourself what you want, cos if you want everything your budget gotta be sky high HAHA. Good luck!~ https://www.pcgamer.com/wd-rebrands-its-red-hard-drives-after-getting-hit-with-a-lawsuit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/ulolsq/zfs_on_smr_drives/ https://diskprices.com/ allenyoung 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JK2E4 Posted June 25 Report Share Posted June 25 15 hours ago, allenyoung said: Any iT expert havung good suggestion for brand / model / HDD (brand) for NAS ? And if to build one ~ what to look out for (tip n trick). I have been using Synology NAS with Seagate Ironwolf HDD for the past 4 years without any issue. Synology's OS, DiskStation Manager is updated frequently. For the model, it depends on how many HDD you're planning to run, and what you're trying to do with the NAS. allenyoung 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4evaboring Posted June 27 Report Share Posted June 27 I had tried out synology nas and they are quite user friendly and depending of model they might be able to be the storage for home cctv as well. allenyoung 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenyoung Posted July 2 Author Report Share Posted July 2 On 6/24/2024 at 8:56 PM, Guest guest said: stick to the reputable brands like synology or qnap, i learned the hard way, bought a cheaper Asustor but it is problematic. For HDD, buy those that are rated for NAS (for eg WD Red series) Heard wd does crash more often ~ was recommended to buy Seagate ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve5380 Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 If you are not in a hurry, a new technology is coming that may be able to store 200 TB on one optical disk. https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/optical_disc_breakthrough/#:~:text=Optical discs that can store up to 200,hard disk or tape for cost-effective long-term storage. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06980-y Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JK2E4 Posted July 17 Report Share Posted July 17 2 hours ago, Steve5380 said: If you are not in a hurry, a new technology is coming that may be able to store 200 TB on one optical disk. https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/optical_disc_breakthrough/#:~:text=Optical discs that can store up to 200,hard disk or tape for cost-effective long-term storage. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06980-y While this new is exciting, I do not think it will be ready for consumer level usage in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Equine Park Posted July 19 Report Share Posted July 19 Synology my go-to. Good stuff overall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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