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NAS advice - Enquiries - 03-04-2023
Hello guys, I follow your channel for quite a while and it's brilliant!
For a few years I am considering to get myself NAS. I am photographer and the main reason for getting NAS is to backup my photos. Currently I only have 4TB external drive, 4TB internal drive and 10TB internal drive. Apart from photos there are also movies, music and other usual stuff. But the photos are the most important. Also, I currently have Raspberry Pi 2B serving Logitech Media Server, PHP and MySQL server, DNS, etc.
What I am hoping for is to have NAS for backing up my photos, serving media, have docker containers running Logitech Media Server and other. I almost bought Synology DS920+ but then my hopes went for DS923+. But I am kind of disappointed with its specs.
Anyway I prefer Synology and DS923+ still seems best choice.
Not sure which drives to use, I have WD Red now. Capacity 12TB+ each. Two as backup hence 4-bay NAS, not sure which RAID configuration. Btw seagulls in the background are cool ;-) Thx
RE: NAS advice - ed - 03-10-2023
Yes, DS923+ is AMD based which makes it terrible for streaming videos outside the home (4k). Local use is OK.
Overall performance is indeed better on ds923+.
The best drives are WD Red plus or Ironwolf (if you need free data recovery service).
With any of these NAS you can do everything you mentioned including having a media server.
The best RAID is SHR. This allows future expansion if you start with just 2-3 drives.
I hope this helps.