Hi!

I am tech enthustiastic and I love trying to do tech-things on my own (f.e. built all my computers, modded router etc. so I know something) but after 5 - 10 hours of research, I still find myself blown away about DIY-NAS.

I would like to build NAS myself because I want customizibility and freedom of "turn-key"-companies and their softwares, especially if they discontinue. End goal is cost-effective, maybe high-upfront cost with low uptime cost (low idle/use power consumption etc). Jellyfin/TrueNas/Unraid undecided.


Ideally my dream DIY-NAS would include 12 - 24 TB storage and I've been looking into Seagate Ironwolf-HDD's. I am fond of Fractal cases and I am thinking to use Fractal Node 304. Power Supply I am looking to buy Corsair or Seanonic platinum/titanium PSU. Are these ok or do you guys suggest to change something?

Biggest thing to think about is CPU/Motherboard/RAM. I've read much about i3-N305 but also read it lacks 2 PCIe-ports. Is it still ok? What about i3-13100F?

I am in the process of finding a replacement for my Drobo 5N, which is still going strong, but I’ve already rolled the dice longer than I should have. So my questions are:

1. To get my data off the Drobo 5N, is temporarily transferring everything onto an external drive over the network my only solution for getting that data off?

2. Once I do get that data off, could I then just eject my Drobo drives, put them into my new NAS, and reformat them for use in those drives? Or will I need all new drives? Two of my drives are only a couple years old 6TB WD Red drives, so it would be nice to reuse them.

3) Last question. Are there any off-the-shelf network NAS' you recommend for former Drobo 5N users? I'd like a plug-&-play consumer solution that works well in my Apple ecosystem, with built-in redundancy similar to what the Drobo offered, and a minimum of 4 bays, but preferably 5. Thank you!

Hey NAS Compares. Really love your work and valuable advice you offer - Thank a million!

I'm running a dedicated Plex sever, alone, on a ds224+

I understand previous NAS iterations benefitted however, would you still recommend enabling Telnet and SSH services and adding VaapiDriver="i965" to preferences on my ds224+ ?

Has this bug been fixed for the ds224+ ?

Not sure if related yet as only sometimes a HECV file stutters whilst playing on a remote and local plex client.

Many thanks
Dave

Which seem to be the quietest 7200 rpm NAS HDD for 12TB to 16TB? I'm using Seagate Ironwolf Pro 10TBs in a QNAP 453D (RAID 5) and they are too loud when working in the same office. I've also used WD RED Pro HDDS, but only in the 6TB form factor (so quieter than the Seagates). I'm looking at moving to the TerraMaster F4-424-Pro with unRAID and four new drives. Any advice appreciated (but not interested in consumer HDDs as reliability matters).

Hi Robbie,
i have a TVS-h874 with 6x6tb Ironwolf drives installed (2 spare bays, unused). I've just bought 2x12tb ironwolf drives, not installed yet.
I intend to get another 4 ironwolfs (ironwolves??) but would i need to?
Can i get another two, totalling 48tb and somehow have the raid rebuild using less drives than the original 6x6tb?
I'm currently using raid 5 and have about 13tb of data over these drives.
Any advice or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
Love the Youtube videos!!
Colin

I recently purchased 5 (one spare) refurbished drives off of Ebay: Seagate ST12000NM0127 12TB 256MB 7200RPM 3.5" SATA 6.0Gb/s Enterprise Hard Drive

Hopefully they aren't complete junk or unreliable.

I'm looking to set them up in a NAS at my office to store general files / spreadsheets / photos / graphics design files / videos and marketing assets.

I've got through your configurator and watched several of your videos but hoping you have one or two NAS suggestions that are easy to set up and just work well. I don't need bells and whistles, just file security.

Worse case, a single computer is connected directly. Better case is multiple computers are connected wirelessly (still with a wired option), and ideal case is both of those plus the ability to access the drive directly remotely (securely).

No top secret docs here, but proprietary info, patentable info, financials etc so private.

I searched "best NAS for RAID 10" but all results were the opposite, best RAID for your NAS.TY

If you prefer not to use third-party software, you can also find duplicates manually by sorting your photos by name or date and looking for obvious duplicates. However, this can be very time-consuming if you have a large number of photos.

Alternatively, you can use built-in features in your operating system:

• On Windows, you can use File Explorer’s search features to find duplicate file names or sizes.
  
• On Mac, you can use Finder to search for files and sort them, although it’s a bit manual.
  
• KMTTECH Duplicate Photo Remover App– If you’re on a budget, this tool has a free version that works well for basic duplicate photo finding.
  
  

I am retired and discovered a love of photography and that I am good enough to sell my landscape work. I travel frequently for a month or more in my van. My home gets hit with hurricanes so I would like to have a second unit in another state. Thus I could have double copies at home and a copy elsewhere. Ideally I would like to be able to upload to the units in case my van gets broken into or I lose a card. I work mostly in RAW/NEF format with Nikon Transfer 2, NX Studio, and Corel Painter. Laptop with Thunderbolt, separate monitor when home. How does that work in re to graphics? With a low end laptop without Iris XE it was awful. Alternative way of sending a few quid?

I currently have Terramaster F-424 and a D6-320, both setup as Traid.  I was looking up to having my TOS operating system and apps installed on an SSD but need to know what size of SSD should I buy for this task.

Also is it better to install.buy a separate SSD for Cache?

I'm looking at either a DS224+ or TS-262-4G and I know you've written comparisons on these. I have 2 questions, one on choice of HD and the other is software. My primary use case is for archival storage and to use as cloud storage for pictures taken on my phone (iPhone). Reading though the docs on Synology and QNAP, Synology doesn't exactly say that pictures taken on you phone will be automatically upload, where QNAP does. Also which is best for this application. The second question is, is it worth buying 7200 rpm drives over 5400 rpm drives. Is read/write speed of the drive the limiting factor or is it the throughput of the NAS. Also any thoughts on WD vs Seagate.