Hey Guys,
I am thinking of picking one of these up. The new 10th gen model. The need I have is. Currently I have a Netgear ReadyNas 104 since 2013 and frankly its suited my needs perfectly. It's been a dumb storage box running RAID and I've had pretty much zero issues with it. However, the network performance is limited to 30mbs which when watching 4k content thats uncompressed at 50mbs, its obviously not really possible.
So I am looking for improved NAS Storage performance really. Something which can utilise my 1gb internal network at home when doing large transfers would be great as well. Moving files 20gb in size is not uncommon - currently have around 8TB of data stored on the NAS at the minute.
If I were to get this, I'd like load it up with 4TB or 8TB disks and it effectively replace the NAS. The previous NAS would be reduced to some CCTV Backup jobs and thats about it.
Anyway. On this microserver machine, I'd probably want to run FreeNas or UNRaid - from USB, I believe this is possible? I want to manage it as little as possible, power it up and leave it, if it turns off due to power cut, it just comes back on with no issue.
Do those who know better think going down the microserver route is a good option? Or would I be better off just buying an equivilant 4 bay Synology which will have much better performance than my ReadyNas anyway?
TIA