Spec me a NAS for under £200..

Defy Belief said:
I see, feel like i'm going down a rabbit hole here :p
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Honestly the Synology will be a solid solution. They are very Apple like and 'just work'. As I've mentioned, I don't trust QNAP NAS software after all the issues they've had (and I realise Synology have not been without issues albeit fewer than QNAP). And with Asus's attitude to customer security with their 'routers' I wouldn't be wanting something from them either. All my personal opinion so do your own research.

There's quite a lot of posts on QNAP's forums with people installing TrueNAS onto their boxes so if you are adventurous that could be an option. Or building your own and trying out TrueNAS but you may have to use Scale which is considered beta to use some on-board NICs.

I have a QNAP TS-673A-8G running TrueNAS Core with a dual 10 Gbps PCI NIC, a couple of NVMe drives and 4x10TB IronWolf's. I also have my custom Ryzen build (5600G, 32GB RAM, NVMe drives, 3x 14TB Toshiba drives, dual 10Gbps NIC). They both provide iSCSI storage to my vSphere lab which has around 14 running VMs and probably 50 in total although with power prices I only power up the custom build every few weeks to do a full sync, or when the QNAP needs maintenance or a reboot.
 
+1 for Synology. I have a 218j, and a 220+. The 218j is obviously not as powerful, but unless you want to transcode Plex, or run Docker, then the 218J is a solid option. and alternative is the DS220j, it is the same as the old 218play, it can transcode and the included Marvell processor is capable. 154 quid on Amazon, no drives of course.

Synology software and support is the best.
 
I've ended up buying a HP ec200a server, which can house 2*3.5" HDDs but has far more grunt, but still lower power than all the NAS machines I was looking at, will be giving TRUENAS a go on it :)
 
Defy Belief said:
I've ended up buying a HP ec200a server, which can house 2*3.5" HDDs but has far more grunt, but still lower power than all the NAS machines I was looking at, will be giving TRUENAS a go on it :)
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It'll also use far more power, if it has the Xeon-D they are not known for being frugal for electricity usage.
 
ChrisD. said:
It'll also use far more power, if it has the Xeon-D they are not known for being frugal for electricity usage.
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Worded that completely wrong :) still 'low power' but not lower power than the nas machines :D

They appear to idle at around 24-27w and max is about 60w, higher than the 8w idle - 15w ish load you'll get with a nas, but its not going to be hugely expensive to run. I bought 2, so I might end up using these are my esxi hosts at some point so gives me a bit of flexibility.
 
They're here :) they're very small, the one fan on the one machine is pretty grindy where the bearings must be going, so I'm going to replace that.

Just awaiting my ram, nvme and drives and will use the other as an esxi host



 
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