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Armageus said:
Bye Synology :D
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Bye 4 bay Asustor for me, hello 8 bay UNAS. Already transitioned Plex server duties to a NUC pc.
Thinking set 3 new 8tb up as RAID 5 transfer everything from my current 3x8tb RAID 5 add on the old drives and convert to (I forget the one that has hot swap spares)
£762 for 8 bays + 2 NVME doesn't seem bad really.
Shame I can't use the nvme for Protect.

Is there a somewhere to read what features ie RAID levels and RAID migration they can do?
 
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I've always been intrigued by NAS devices. What do you all generally store to require huge amounts of storage? Is that since the age verification thing has come in? Backups of DVD's etc?
 
michty_me said:
Anyone use that sort of thing for game file backups so you don't have to download all game files again etc? Is that even possible?
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Some people run their Steam library from a NAS, but ideally you need 10Gb network and the NAS to be all flash/decent caching to replicate the speed of local drives
 
You could in theory implement a Steam cache but that's only useful if you're regularly re-downloading the same content or have many clients doing so.

Otherwise it's local to the machine I reckon.
 
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michty_me said:
I've always been intrigued by NAS devices. What do you all generally store to require huge amounts of storage? Is that since the age verification thing has come in? Backups of DVD's etc?
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Plex library, flac music files, RAW photos, file storage, also all my homelab stuff is on there. I also run all my apps on it such as Home Assistant, Plex itself and all the supporting apps. Which is why I likely won't get a UniFi NAS because IIRC they can't run apps/containers (I guess yet).
 
RSR said:
Oh, they are priced quite well... :o
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Tell me about it.

Tempted to sell my Aoostar and move to one. Then run all my 'apps' on my Mac Studio.

Since I'm running VCF 9 now, I've moved storage to NFS. Just need to understand if you can use the NVMe drives for pure storage or if they're limiting it to cache only.
 
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ChrisD. said:
Tell me about it.

Tempted to sell my Aoostar and move to one. Then run all my 'apps' on my Mac Studio.

Since I'm running VCF 9 now, I've moved storage to iSCSI. Just need to understand if you can use the NVMe drives for pure storage or if they're limiting it to cache only.
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Mac or NUC will both be pretty low power. That said, the Asus NUC 14 I tried with Proxmox had some weird networking issues, so I sold that.

I'm currently rebuilding my lab and am unsure whether to take the A2 or whitebox route, as I have both of them priced up for now, which I was planning to give vSAN or NFS another go.
 
Once they get a few more protocols supported I could be tempted by these new UNAS Devices. Only having SMB & NFS doesn't quite do everything I need
 
RSR said:
Mac or NUC will both be pretty low power. That said, the Asus NUC 14 I tried with Proxmox had some weird networking issues, so I sold that.

I'm currently rebuilding my lab and am unsure whether to take the A2 or whitebox route, as I have both of them priced up for now, which I was planning to give vSAN or NFS another go.
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Massive typo above, I meant to write NFS.

Already have a pretty beefy Mac Studio, it'll run the default app suite with ease. Not a fan of how TrueNAS keep changing their app/container/kub strategy to be honest which has got me thinking, and despite knowing what I'm doing I still find the interface/ACLs challenging.
 
ChrisD. said:
Tell me about it.

Tempted to sell my Aoostar and move to one. Then run all my 'apps' on my Mac Studio.

Since I'm running VCF 9 now, I've moved storage to NFS. Just need to understand if you can use the NVMe drives for pure storage or if they're limiting it to cache only.
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But as you said, it doesnt run docker containers. big negetive atm
 
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