4 bay Nas advice

liamcrane · 20 Dec 2015 at 21:49

Evening all

I currently have a home made server that I am looking to sell off mainly because it's quite a large unit and I'm looking to downsize. It currently has 4 x2tb drives of data, I'm looking for a decent 4 bay Nas to store these in and I plan on using a Mac mini as the main server to push out media via plex as well as other things. I had considered maybe a nuc as the server but I'm not 100% sure if I want to go down that route.

Didn't really want to spend much more than £250 on the Nas unit.

Appreciate any advice as always

Cheers guys

liamcrane · 20 Dec 2015 at 22:38

Thanks for the input mate much appreciated, like yourself I have owned a synology before just a 2 bay one and I must say it was a fab piece of kit. Have also owned a micro server as well and it served very well. Only thing I found with the micro servers was the cpu would hold back with things like plex transcodes. I know the gen 8's can be upgraded but as soon as you start getting into that it starts to get expensive. I have just seen on the rain Forrest one for £180 though...

I have been looking at the readynas which I have seen for around the £190 mark, not had any experience with the readynas models before so just reading some reviews on them now.

liamcrane · 21 Dec 2015 at 11:35

Thanks for all the help guys much appreciated! Still undecided on the way to go as there are so many nas boxes out there. I think i just want a basic 4 bay nas i dont really need it to do that much apart from house the 4 drives. I dont really need raid as one of the 4 drives i have is a 3tb backup drive to the main 3 drives along with a usb backup drive of important files. Just need to decide also what server to go for to run along side the nas, im leaning towards the mac mini at the moment

liamcrane · 21 Dec 2015 at 13:01

The main reason for not wanting to use thunderbolt disks is i have only just recently bought 3x 2tb internal disks and think transfer speeds are always better when storage is mounted internally.

Thanks for the thought though

liamcrane · 21 Dec 2015 at 13:32

Just seen that the cash back deal is back on for the G8's from a well known retailer, £165 and £110 after cashback

liamcrane · 21 Dec 2015 at 20:32

I am tempted by the microserver, i have a server 2012 license or a windows 7/10 license i could use for it. Setting it up would be easy done plenty of these before, i notice you have to buy a floppy to sata power cable if you want to run an ssd as the boot drive from the ODD bay and if im right it need to be set up in its on raid 1 array to be able to boot from it?