NAS(ish) Box with Low Running Cost

GeordieStew · 12 Apr 2019 at 21:38

Evening folks

Looking for advice on what kind of hardware I need for a 24/7 NAS box running an SMB share and Sonarr, Radarr and Sabnzbd. It'll need to serve 1080p to two Apple TVs running Infuse (or Kodi on Fire TV).

I'll be putting a 10-12TB disk in there (or two), running Xpenology probably. I'm not bothered about redundancy as nothing critical on there. I can rerip my library if anything dies.

I do have an N54L spare, but not sure if it has enough grunt. Would I be better upgrading? Is there anything with lower running cost? Should I add an additional network card?

Cheers

Danny75 · 12 Apr 2019 at 21:58

While you may get good advice in this section, your chances will be increased by posting in the Storage Drives forum which is frequented more by members with good knowledge of this stuff. It's not just about storage drives, they deal with NAS-related stuff often.

GeordieStew · 12 Apr 2019 at 22:00

Oh. Didn't think of that. I'll report and ask for it to be moved

thank you

EssexBoy · 12 Apr 2019 at 22:17

I am running Xpenology on a 54 and it runs 1080p and 720p easily while also doing couchpotato and sonarr so i would give it a shot as long as it don't need to encode it will be more than enough.

GeordieStew · 13 Apr 2019 at 13:01

Yeah, figure I don't have a lot to lose. Not sure if there's anything I should upgrade in it. More RAM? Network card?

EssexBoy · 13 Apr 2019 at 13:51

Ram pretty much the only worthwhile upgrade.Try without first and check the usage through the diskstation resource monitor when it's under load and see how well it copes.

If you ever fill the 4 bays up you can get 2 more drives fitted in the 5.25 bay up top if you ever need too.