Advice with NAS decision

[stuiow]

Hi all,
For 15 years or so, i have run a QNAP nas on my home network, storing files, running a media server, running windows 10 in virtulisation and more recently, as 24 camera (onvif) DVR.

My TVS-473e has just died, that used to manage all the above OK.
I now have a decision to make.

I cannot get spares to repair the qnap NAS. I've tried all sorts and it appears to be a dead motherboard.
Where do i go from here?
Buy another QNAP or build a NAS using an old PC i have here (Based on a i5 4690K with 16GB ram anda Nvidia GTX 750Ti)?

I am spooked by the fact my loyal qnap has died and i cannot fix it.
When i bought it, these were £450. Same spec now is pushing £1000.

I have a backup QNAP 253pro running my important harddrives containing files from the NAS - but no virtulisation or security camera recording.

I'm thinking going forward, run trueNAS with some kind of security camera software and that PC i mentioned earlier - I'll pop in the drives from the dead NAS and add a SSD to run the server.

Can i have your suggestions on how you would proceed with this situation?

Cheers

 

[MrWhippy]

In your position, I’d be using that old PC as an unraid box and leave the money in the bank. Doubt spending £1000 will get you a significantly better solution to your problem.

 

[jokerguv]

+1 to the above suggestion. You can start with existing PC and can change or upgrade components as required.

A proprietary NAS whilst may seem attractive for ease of setup but is very likely to again lead to your current predicament.

 

[stuiow]

I think I agree with you both, build my own server.
Thanks.

Truenas scale I'm favouring right now.
I'll see if I can put something like ispy agent or zoneminder on there to capture the camera feeds too.

Cheers all.

 

[eggbert]

I dumped QNAP for an unraid system and don’t regret it. What done me was a PSU failure which took an age to source a replacement and then not long after Qnap decided my expensive NAS was obsolete and wasn’t getting any more updates, even though it was more powerful than the later models. It was just planned obsolescence on a very expensive device.

Unraid isn’t as polished or newb friendly as something like a Qnap but it’s far from daunting once you get used to it.

Just a case of having to find dockers, apps or even setting up vms to do some of the stuff that’s built into Qnap.

 

[eggbert]

I think I agree with you both, build my own server.
Thanks.

Truenas scale I'm favouring right now.
I'll see if I can put something like ispy agent or zoneminder on there to capture the camera feeds too.

Cheers all.

I considered Truenas and Unraid. In the end the flexibility to have mismatched drive sizes in my array in Unraid won out. It’s definitely slower than a more standard RAID setup but I sidestepped that somewhat with a decent sized SSD cache. If I had have had a bunch of matching sized drives available at the time I may have chose Truenas.

 

[spile]

Have you investigated the 100 ohm resistor fix?