Dear NASCompares users,

I'm starting this thread because I wasn't able to clarify my mind. I'm starting to think about my future upgrade for a DIY NAS.

Nowadays, I'm running on a HP ProLiant Microserver Gen10, with an old AMD Opteron X3216. The OS installed is Debian, with an apache server and a nextcloud isntance running on it.

Storage is composed of 2 ZFS pools, the first one for work, and the second one as back up with a rsync every month.

My system is probably not the most sophisticated ever, but it works fine in general. Nextcloud is probably the most important thing I need.
Indeed, as a photographer, Nextcloud is a way to archive and backup my pictures and administrative papers. It's also a way to exchange with my clients and deliver them.

In another way, I'm using it as a media server (with JRiver if you ask).

In terms of management for the backup, I wrote on my actual NAS a script which is mounting a backup pool (another disk) once a month during the night, rsyncing the data from my main pool, and detach the backup pool when it's over. In this way, I guess, I'm preventing some attacks ? not sure... On another hand, nextcloud is syncing with a last backup computer, in another place. Backup done.

Let's talk about my needs and my wishes, and for my new system I determined some requirements :

• Jonsbo N4 case (let's start from the end lol. I definitely love it !! Except his HDD trays ....).

• ECC RAM (16Gb, I guess not less, not more)
• 3x HDD disks of 6-8Tb (not definitively sure), it will be a RAIDZ1 pool (WORK-POOL)
• 1X small SSD used as a cache for the work pool
• 1x HDD disk of 8-10Tb, it will be a backup pool.
• 1x SSD (probably M2 on the MOBO) for the OS

• Low-Power and energy efficient MOBO+CPU
• Debian OS, I guess (mostly because I know it). I didn't consider TrueNAS + Nextcloud yet

My difficulties concerns CPU+MOBO choice. Of course, I looked at the article "The Best CPU+Motherboard Combo for Your NAS Build – 2024 Edition" on this main site, but I didn't found my hapiness. It was my first slap : a lot of DIY'ers are using some no-name motherboards sold on Alieexpress. At first, I was really doubting about them, but after hours of readings forums, it looks to be a not so bad option. Indeed, these no-name cards seem to meet requirements about SATA ports, and nvme sockets, while 1st class brands need to use some PCI or nvme adapter for SATA ports. Well, I'm still not convinced by them.. Can I ask some more feedback's about these cards ?

During my searches, it appears that :
• SuperMicro cards are f*cking expensive and hard to find
• Topton cards are not compatible with ECC
• Fujitsu boards seem to be a good compromise, but maybe hard to find in Europe
• Regular brands like ASRock, ASUS, and so one could be easy to find and setup, but the low-power goal will be hard to reach.

In the end, I'm talking about everything except CPU..... Because I don't know how to choose The One !
My main goal, nextcloud, doesn't ask particular requirements.
It's not a high-end gaming PC, we're talking about a 24/24 NAS. Low power consumption is a goal, but I'm afraid to be limited by something like a Pentium G5400, Celron's or Atom's categories. Am I wrong ? I'm not either talking about AMD CPU, because I don't know them, and Ryzen's CPU (recommended by the previous article) with 8+ cores seems to be overkill.

To conclude, it's hard to choose a direction, probably because I'm not able to fix a CPU, and balance between performance and efficiency. I'm not really bottlenecked by my CPU except under heavy loads, also I would like to ask to this nice community some advice  

Hey everyone, I wonder if you could help sanity check my NAS choice. Many thanks in advance!

I`m looking at replacing a 10+year old home wintel server with a NAS device. My new NAS will be fulfilling two roles:

·         Host / Sync a local copy (and provide backup for ) Microsoft onedrive cloud storage files
· HostPlex Media Server for local music (synced from onedrive), Video streaming, and recording of broadcast TV via LAN attached HD homerun

My existing wintel home server already runs the above roles and works well. My total storage requirements are modest (currently 1.6TB), so I`ll run a two drive array with some kind of redundancy with a third drive installed outside the array for online backups. I don’t care about snapshots or versioning.

So heres where I need some input / validation of my choice of NAS. I`m currently looking at a Synology DS923+ based on the following criteria:

·         I want a recent product which has a decent supported lifespan ahead of it, because I`d like to retain the hardware for 8-10 years.
·         I very much require a turnkey solution with minimal configuration overhead. Life priorities mean I don’t have time to tinker these days. It needs to “just work” out of the box.
·         Plex is a hard requirement, as is support for MS Onedrive sync. I`ve no interest or appetite to replace these solutions.
·         I want a rich software ecosystem just in case I happen to have a new role for my server in future (unlikely but future-proofing)
·         I`m happy to lose support for hardware transcoding / GPU support because a) my video content is *all* 1080p or lower, and I don’t like the client experience of transcoded video content anyway. I`m currently testing my existing plex 
server/clients with transcoding disabled both server and client side to confirm this wont present any challenge. Additionally I have no requirement to stream video to any client outside my home network. 
 

So, with the above in mind, do we think the Synology 923+ is a good choice?

I have a qnap TX64 2 bay NAS with 2 2.5gb ports.  I have a Tenda TEM2010F 8 port 2.5G switch with 2*2.5G SFP slots.  My pc has one on board 2.5G port and an additional pcie 2.5G add in card.  I have checked the Enable file services SMB box on the MS Networking screen and the Enable SMB multichannel.  My pc and my NAS see both network cards/NAS ports.

I have two cables from pc to switch to NAS.  I have one 8TB hard drive and 2*2TB ssds set up for caching and qtier, although I probably don't need them, but I had them on hand so I put them in.  

When I transfer an 8GB file from pc to NAS I only get 75-110MB/s transfer speed.  

Are there other settings that I need to change?  

Are the SFP ports on the switch anything I could use?

I am fairly low on NAS knowledge.  I use it fairly simply for backup from pc to NAS, but would like to use it to access photos to display on other devices around the home (big screen TV)

Thanks for any pointers.

Hi
We have a Qnap ts-251+ which is currently doing a daily incremental back up to a Qnap ts-212 (the ts-212 runs for about 2.5 hours per day).
Unfortunately the ts-212 has developed a fault where it doesn't turn on at the scheduled time and even occasionally doesn't start with the power button requiring a power disconnect- reconnect to get it to run. We originally had the backup going to a ts-112 which also developed the same problem.

I am looking for a replacement for the ts-212 and saw your review of the Terramaster F2-212, am I correct in thinking the TS-251+ will readily perform incremental backups to the Terramaster F2-212?

Regards,
             Bob

Just wanting to see the best options for a NAS for editing videos off of. I'm editing 4k video but edit with proxys in davinci resolve.

This will be my first NAS but I don't want to have to buy another one for a long time or be bleh on the performance when editing video.

I'm on the fence between a Asustor Lockerstor 6 Gen 3 and the QNAP TVS-h674T-i5-32G-US. My primary use case is for video editing. I pull lots of 4k footage from phones and mirrorless cameras. Also, I have decades worth of files.

My primary machine is a MacBook Pro M3, and I have 2.5Gb fiber running straight to it through a 2.5gb switch. I don't know which of these NAS to choose. Don't really plan on doing any media streaming, but who knows, maybe in the future. The QNAP seems like overkill but on the other hand could mean plenty of room to grow. The Asustor seems adequate but while I've watched tons of reviews I still don't know enough to say it's adequate.

I'm curious to learn if Webroot AV is compatible for use on the QNAP NAS.

Thanks for all you guys do.

Just picked up a used DS920+ to move from my DAS. It will be used for Plex Server and library storage, using SABnzbd or NZBGet incorporating SONARR and RADARR. Should I invest in M2 cards for cache or pooling to increase download efficiency and speed, I am on a 1Gbps line.

Or should I invest that money in larger capacity HDD? I have RAM in hand to install once I receive the unit. Thanks for the help.

I am looking to setup a home NAS.

Both me and my wife work in the creative industry (Photography, Design, Web Development) and we both work primarily from home. We have a 2.5GB home ethernet network and we have 3 Macs, 2 laptops and a bunch of devices. We have a current data store of approx 22GB, across multiple HD drives, with the 2 main macs backed up to the cloud via BackBlaze.

We need to be able to access the NAS data both from the house and externally, as we also have a studio that we work in less often.

I am not sure about:
- the type of NAS I should be getting
- whether I need SSDs
- do I need a new BackBlaze account for the NAS
- how does the file sync work, do files always reside on the NAS or do the files sync back and forth to the NAS from each Mac. How does this effect working externally.

Key requirements:
2.5GB ethernet minimum
40+ TB to start
OS that allows Plex etc
Maybe a Hybrid model with HD & SSD

Thanks, Kieran

Former net marketing, mostly music recording related field with lots of large files, and training videos from a small home setup.
Currently using 10 year old Lenovo Windows server 2012 r2 with a couple of 4T drives, a 1T and a few repurposed drives of sound libraries.
Instead of updating the OS with windows, which might require hardware upgrades, either wanting another OS or purchase an NAS.
3 windows, 3 mac os, 2 android, 2 iOS .. just me, but might have several of these at the same time.

I also have a 2012 late Mac Mini with a 1T SSD that could possibly be repurposed as a server.
Thank you for guidance!
Stephen