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Never really needed one. Although I have considered building my own a few times, mainly for movies, I'll get around to it one day.
Well for movie streaming I wanted to get one. As the dvd/blu-ray library grows, it can be a bit annoying to store them on shelves. Packing and repacking in boxes would be annoying as well. A long term soultion and space saving option would be nice. The main problem is that most of them are pretty weak for transcoding. Most nas boxes have old old cpu's or underpowered cpu's. Then even more do not allow for upgrading ram. Or they only allow old ram like ddr3. The cost for a nas box is expensive even without any drives in them. I will be taking some suggestions from this thread and look up some boxes that other people use. I have looked up using USB sticks and external harddrives. Nothing concrete at the moment though. Still a bit confusing.
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Well, it's semantics I guess but I'd call that a headless server (got one here) which, while providing Network Addressable Storage, isn't what I'd tske the term NAS device to mean.Originally Posted by peterb
Well - that is a NAS in the same way that my Fedora based ITX system is a NAS.
(unless the question was only concerned with the loud, expensive (and sometimes) underpowered ready built systems - in which case my answer would have neen a resounding 'no' for the same reasons as yours.)
I'd take the "device" bit to mean a purpose-built more or less out-of-the-box unit albeit with or without drives, designed and sold as a NAS.
As for me, no. Keep thinking about it. But my NAS is actually a venerable old server, with SCSI RAID 5, hot-swappable drives, hot spare, etc, and monitor/kb/mouse on a KVM switch with anothdr system.
Yup - use 20% of at bes of what it can do - all family photos are on it 'cuase can share with grandparents and has 2 rives & therefore redundancy.
Got a couple of them, a Buffalo Linkstation with 8tb in and an old Netgear Stora with 2tb. Handy little devices for file sharing round the home and streaming to my work
Aye. In fact I got mine this week. I bought a Synology DS918+
Added and addition 4GB DDR3L and 4x6TB Ironwolf.
It'll be quieter and draw less power than my hulking great PC. And always be available for films, TV and photos.
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just started to look in to one this week !!
Yep . it sits there ,all the PCs back up to it , it then backs up to the cloud , my media library is on there also so I can access it from anywhere in the house.
I don't, but it's something I'm considering getting at some point in the future.
However as I stated in the Synology DS918+ thread, I'd be avoiding Synology and would be more likely to lean in the direction of a DIY NAS - so in other words, build a server instead.
I have had and still have several of the WD NAS's. only from the cheap/midrange series though.
They do the job of just being a NAS really well, and they have some neat mediacenter features too.
One con so far, is that they are prone to bitrot, even in the dual-disk configurations. I do have backup of my backups backup though, so hasnt hit me hard thus far.
Would be nice to have a NAS supporting ZFS one day. Still not sure if Synologys version of ZFS really prevents bitrot.
Homebuilt NAS box here with an Atom 330 cpu etc. 6tb of storage. More a backup but I have put a load of blu ray rips on it which we stream to the cheap £30 anfroid tv box
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
Yes. It gets used for streaming media. Lot's of functions, but not so polished apps.
However I think usb solution connected to the router would do the job as well.
Got a Synology DS418Play. Before that I had a Synology DS414. I use it for backing up my windows machine, work, films, tv, music and picture collection. The NAS also has streaming ability so it's like a homemade Netflix/Spotify. Saves a lot of money and is more fun to tinker with.
I've also setup my wife and close family's devices to automatically backup their files. I'm very careful with backing up data, after almost losing all of my photography obsessed father in-law's holiday photos. His external hard drive died after being plugged into my machine, I got a data recovery specialist place to save the data for a price of £300. So I don't want to repeat that.
I have several:
2x HP Microservers running NAS4free (5x4TB & 3x4,2x8TB, both JBOD) acting as bulk storage for all my BD & DVD rips, and music
1x WD MyCloud EX2 (4TB JBOD) - general backups
1x WD MyCloud EX2utra (8TB JBOD) - all the random data I need to sort & organise
2x Netgear Storas (both 3TB) - Duplicate backups of important stuff
In the longer term, I'm going to reconfigure the EX2ultra as a 4TB mirror and store it at a friend's so that I have an off-site backup of the important stuff
Like many, mine is homebrew. Off the shelf NAS' are over priced, under powered, and under supported.
I've generally relegated old PCs to the job to give me a zero cost NAS. Recently though I refurbished mine with new parts, still cheaper than buying a NAS. I'm using ESXi on it and it truely is a one-stop-shop. From NAS, media server, mail server, firewall and router (no standalone router in my house). Consumes ~50W power.
Being PC based, I've got the flexibility to add and remove bits as required. Used to have extra HBA for more drives in there, multi-port nics, etc.
To keep your NAS secure, you'd have to replace it as and when it drops out of support. With this approach you just upgrade the OS as needed - probably not something for your average home user, but it saves me a lot of money in the long run, and I enjoy it.
Yes, I've had a NAS for about 10 years now. Store my ripped DVDs on it.
Currently 6TB dual drive.
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