They'd have to be at the absolute bottom end of the market then, my 5 year old entry-level Synology DS214se has gigabit ethernet and even the really basic single-drive WD ones do too.
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They'd have to be at the absolute bottom end of the market then, my 5 year old entry-level Synology DS214se has gigabit ethernet and even the really basic single-drive WD ones do too.
I don't think that anyone can argue that a synology is going to cost less, it plainly isn't.
But as somebody said above, you buy it, get it working 20 minutes later and then you forget about it for months and months. Personally not had an issue with life ending support or reliability so can't really comment on what your saying. I can only say that of all the thing I've brought its up there with the best and most worthwhile purchases.
Its probably more like comparing a console to a pc tbh.
But as somebody said above, you buy it, get it working 20 minutes later and then you forget about it for months and months. Personally not had an issue with life ending support or reliability so can't really comment on what your saying. I can only say that of all the thing I've brought its up there with the best and most worthwhile purchases.
Its probably more like comparing a console to a pc tbh.
Thanks guys, I used this thread for guidance when deciding the same thing as the OP. I'm well overdue having a NAS and moving my Plex server off of my gaming PC. I've not even heard of Unraid before but now I'm converted! The most appealing thing is being able to mix drive sizes with parity which means I've actually starting using an older 1TB drive again, because why not?
I ended up building the following:
i3 9100 with a Noctua NH-L9i cooler
Asus PRIME H310I-PLUS R2 Mini ITX Mobo
8GB Corsair Vengence RAM
Seasonic Focus SGX 450W PSU
250GB Nvme M2 (cache drive)
Fractal Node 304 case.
It cost me £450 before storage drives. Unraid is another £50 which means £500 for what is a pretty decent spec server that supports QuickSync with the iGPU so will transcode away effortlessly. That 9100 appears to be similar performance as my i7-4790k but without hyperthreading! If I need more than 4 drives, then a £20 Dell Perc card will allow me to add more (although my case can only take 6). If I wanted to trim cost then I would have saved £70 by putting a Pentium Gold in it but wanted the extra cores.
I can also say that Unraid was the easiest thing to setup ever, and must have taken me 30 mins to create the flash drive and get it up and running with some shares created.
Another advantage is that I can run a Windows VM if I like and I've actually got a decent usable PC. Will be sorting Plex etc tonight
I ended up building the following:
i3 9100 with a Noctua NH-L9i cooler
Asus PRIME H310I-PLUS R2 Mini ITX Mobo
8GB Corsair Vengence RAM
Seasonic Focus SGX 450W PSU
250GB Nvme M2 (cache drive)
Fractal Node 304 case.
It cost me £450 before storage drives. Unraid is another £50 which means £500 for what is a pretty decent spec server that supports QuickSync with the iGPU so will transcode away effortlessly. That 9100 appears to be similar performance as my i7-4790k but without hyperthreading! If I need more than 4 drives, then a £20 Dell Perc card will allow me to add more (although my case can only take 6). If I wanted to trim cost then I would have saved £70 by putting a Pentium Gold in it but wanted the extra cores.
I can also say that Unraid was the easiest thing to setup ever, and must have taken me 30 mins to create the flash drive and get it up and running with some shares created.
Another advantage is that I can run a Windows VM if I like and I've actually got a decent usable PC. Will be sorting Plex etc tonight
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I had a Synology 8TB a year ago and never looked back.
I use it mainly for films & TV, music, photo's etc and I can access from anywhere with some great Synology APPs.
I can also give people a link to get at stuff and a link to upload stuff so for example this week a bloke had 100s of photo's of my band and he just uploaded them straight to my NAS.
This is mine to give you an example of size, I've been meaning to put it in the other room but haven't got round to it yet (it's a 24" monitor) -
I use it mainly for films & TV, music, photo's etc and I can access from anywhere with some great Synology APPs.
I can also give people a link to get at stuff and a link to upload stuff so for example this week a bloke had 100s of photo's of my band and he just uploaded them straight to my NAS.
This is mine to give you an example of size, I've been meaning to put it in the other room but haven't got round to it yet (it's a 24" monitor) -