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Building a NAS - Will this suffice?
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17-08-2014 3:17pm#1
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people who build their own NAS's (including me) are people who've never owned a Synology NAS.
I've bought another NAS previously (a 7 bay thecus) and was so disappointed in it that when it came time to upgrade (after years of that same disappointment over and over again at trying to get ti to do pretty much anything other than be a basic file server) I decided to build my own 8 bay freeNAS box.
It was a big learning experience, but there was a lot of the same disappointments trying to get it to perform the way I wanted to, so when it came time to upgrade again, I went for a 12 bay synology after seeing someone's 2 bay walk all over both my previous NAS's in just about every respect.
And it's freaking awesome. EVERYTHING about it.
my only criticism of synology is that they didn't jump down my throat and sell me one before i wasted valuable time, effort and a lot of money trying to get other NAS's to do what synology NAS's do effortlessly out of the box.Network Storage (approx 1.75TB) - Using FreeNAS Synology piss all over freeNAS in both performance and features.
Cloud Server (approx 0.25TB) - Using ownCloud Synology have it built in and have apps that will plug in to most existing cloud services like dropbox etc.
Media Server (approx 2TB) - Using Plex Synology has a built in media server that works pretty well, but there are also builds of plex for it too.
Almost a year with it now and I wouldn't be happier and know several people with them and everyone so far that i've spoken to feels the same.
also, whenever this one gets too long in the tooth, i'll be buying another, newer synology NAS, which is the first time I've ever stuck with the same company.
its got a great download client and there's a plugin for chrome that works locally and remotely over the web to send all your downloads directly to the NAS that works with pretty much everything from youtube vids to torrents and most filesharing services, so it's as easy as just right clicking on whatever you want in the browser and off it goes.
I also love how easy it is to set up simple file sharing with other people (literally 2 clicks and it's done) or configure extra users to give them 24/7 access to your stuff.0 -
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I spent ages trying to get freenas to do less than half of the basic stuff that synology NAS's do out of the box, it's just not worth the hassle unless you really do love banging your head against a wall.
i've never once looked back and i've never once wished that the synology did anything as good as either of my other NAS's as it does EVERYTHING (and more) better.
and yes, it does transcoding.
it might not make a difference to you now, but it will if you ever decide to go for another media player as you'll be able to spend a lot less on one as you won't need to worry about whether or not it will play back x, y, z videos.0 -
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and you *could* go down the HP microserver route which might save a few pennies. room for 4 data drives (plus an extra SSD) and would work out cheaper overall with the same amount of disks and memory, plus there's a big enthusiast movement here on boards.ie. 0
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