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As many other people I find myself in a situation where when I've run out of storage space I've just bought another hard drive. When I've upgraded a pc I've just bought a bigger new drive and so on and so forth.
Fast forward to now and I, as a hobby do photography, so storage again has come to the fore along with backups, so I started to build a Truenas server out of an old pc which kinda works but is not the most power efficient and if I am honest I do tend to power it on to do a backup and then power it off.
What I am thinking I want to do; is build a NAS that will stay on permanently, the aim of the NAS is as follows:
* Act as a seperate copy of my photographs and data, maybe longer term it will act as a live storage device where I work directly from it though only after I build another NAS offsite to act as a backup?
* Hold my media library and be able to share this to the various tv in the house. I have an extensive library of movies and whilst I do like to have the originals in their cases I do like the idea of convenience to be able to watch them.
* Be able to act as a storage solution for three apple accounts and my android device - primarily for photos etc
* I don't particuarly like my TrueNas server, it's a bit noisy, more power hungry than a NAS also I found it a bit of a pain to setup, so would probably feel safer with an off the shelf solution especially if it is on 24hrs a day.
My main PC is as follows:
12700K
64gb RAM
1 TB boot NVME
1 TB games NVME
4 TB storage nvme
8 TB photo storage NVME
8 TB WD red pro hard disk, copy of 8TB nvme
1 TB nvme that i use as a cache drive for focus stacking (lots of reads and writes to this drive)
10 GB nic
My current True NAS
3 TB
4 TB
4 TB
8 TB wd red pro
10 GB nic
I have coming 2 * 8 TB WD red pro.
in my cupboard I have all my old hard drives and ssd - mix of drives from 1* 4tb ssd, 1 * 3TB hard disk, 2TB hard disk, numerous 1 TB hard disks (there's also drives going down to MB as I never sold any).
So what to do? I don't have a huge budget, hence probably why I am in the place I am in with all the above.
Current thought process is to get a 4 bay NAS, so would welcome view points on Synology DS925+ or the UGreen 4800 Plus or wait for the 4800 pro assuming a similarish price to the pro? The Synology I believe can be expanded to add additional drives, can the UGreens? also any thoughts on either of the units? Or would you stick with TrueNas and learn / expand that server?
Drive setup in the NAS, I am looking to put all the 8TB wd red drives into the NAS, years ago I used to run raid 10 on some home NAS that I had but now thinking RAID 5 (3 disks plus 1 redundant). In theory I'll have a copy of all the data on my main pc and on the NAS, then I may also have the TrueNas box just to keep as a third copy until the offsite NAS can be procured.
In order to facilitate the swapping of drives into the NAS, can I put the 2 new drives in the NAS and copy the data across, then take my 2 drives (1 from main pc, 1 from TrueNas) and add them in or do I need to copy the existing data somewheer else and then add the 4 drives into the NAS configuree that for storage and then copy the data back across - if so I may have to factor into my costs a large usb Hard disk, or will TrueNas allow me to mix drives in a storage pool could I create a 3TB, 3 TB, 4 TB 4 TB pool? what size would it give? - please note one other reason to go for a NAS is that I am looking for simplicity and ease of use so sorry for the question if it is a stupid one!
So what to do, how would you do this?
Matt
Fast forward to now and I, as a hobby do photography, so storage again has come to the fore along with backups, so I started to build a Truenas server out of an old pc which kinda works but is not the most power efficient and if I am honest I do tend to power it on to do a backup and then power it off.
What I am thinking I want to do; is build a NAS that will stay on permanently, the aim of the NAS is as follows:
* Act as a seperate copy of my photographs and data, maybe longer term it will act as a live storage device where I work directly from it though only after I build another NAS offsite to act as a backup?
* Hold my media library and be able to share this to the various tv in the house. I have an extensive library of movies and whilst I do like to have the originals in their cases I do like the idea of convenience to be able to watch them.
* Be able to act as a storage solution for three apple accounts and my android device - primarily for photos etc
* I don't particuarly like my TrueNas server, it's a bit noisy, more power hungry than a NAS also I found it a bit of a pain to setup, so would probably feel safer with an off the shelf solution especially if it is on 24hrs a day.
My main PC is as follows:
12700K
64gb RAM
1 TB boot NVME
1 TB games NVME
4 TB storage nvme
8 TB photo storage NVME
8 TB WD red pro hard disk, copy of 8TB nvme
1 TB nvme that i use as a cache drive for focus stacking (lots of reads and writes to this drive)
10 GB nic
My current True NAS
3 TB
4 TB
4 TB
8 TB wd red pro
10 GB nic
I have coming 2 * 8 TB WD red pro.
in my cupboard I have all my old hard drives and ssd - mix of drives from 1* 4tb ssd, 1 * 3TB hard disk, 2TB hard disk, numerous 1 TB hard disks (there's also drives going down to MB as I never sold any).
So what to do? I don't have a huge budget, hence probably why I am in the place I am in with all the above.
Current thought process is to get a 4 bay NAS, so would welcome view points on Synology DS925+ or the UGreen 4800 Plus or wait for the 4800 pro assuming a similarish price to the pro? The Synology I believe can be expanded to add additional drives, can the UGreens? also any thoughts on either of the units? Or would you stick with TrueNas and learn / expand that server?
Drive setup in the NAS, I am looking to put all the 8TB wd red drives into the NAS, years ago I used to run raid 10 on some home NAS that I had but now thinking RAID 5 (3 disks plus 1 redundant). In theory I'll have a copy of all the data on my main pc and on the NAS, then I may also have the TrueNas box just to keep as a third copy until the offsite NAS can be procured.
In order to facilitate the swapping of drives into the NAS, can I put the 2 new drives in the NAS and copy the data across, then take my 2 drives (1 from main pc, 1 from TrueNas) and add them in or do I need to copy the existing data somewheer else and then add the 4 drives into the NAS configuree that for storage and then copy the data back across - if so I may have to factor into my costs a large usb Hard disk, or will TrueNas allow me to mix drives in a storage pool could I create a 3TB, 3 TB, 4 TB 4 TB pool? what size would it give? - please note one other reason to go for a NAS is that I am looking for simplicity and ease of use so sorry for the question if it is a stupid one!
So what to do, how would you do this?
Matt