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HOME NAS 2022 EDITION With all the new^4 Vaults, QNAP Ransomeware and Synology Drive proprietary nonsense going on, I think a home server / NAS build guide for single to double digit TB of storage and option for compute or just storage would be cool. ie, filestorage, Plex, VMs, did I say reliable file storage? There was the old video of the Synology and Andy did the 'old PC to windows SMB share' video, but I'm thinking 1 -2 levels up. Ie, TrueNAS, UNRAID with ZFS, 10GBE, TB3 daisy chain. 2022 edition I think most viewers have a real need for reliable storage, and have enough knowhow to use more than Win SMB shares.

Cool, thanks. Yea, a NVME cache would be very beneficial. Guess I'll wait for something to go on sale.

Thanks. Though this makes a lot of sense, I think the size / power / noise would be a problem would be an issue for my environment. Yea, seems strange. I guess only people with heavy 4K+ video editing want 10gbe. Curious why you suggest Synology vs QNAP. I'm not partial to either (only experience with an old QNAP).

A newbie around here, I’d like to say hello. TL;DR - need small NAS recco with some speed, but no VMs. I have been trying to figure out what direction to go for a NAS for the past couple months and frankly, I’m overloaded. My needs are pretty basic compared to everything ya’ll do. I need to have high data protection and the ability to edit RAW photos and low bitrate video (100MB/s) directly off my NAS. I have been using a QNAP for 10 years and it’s relatively ok, but I am starting to worry about bitrot. Also, the interfaces on it are just slow/old (sata2, 1gbe NIC). I do have some parts I can reuse: 2 x 2 TB sata3 SSDs 2 x 1TB m.2 NVME 10Gbe switch I don’t have a lot of data, < 10TB, and frankly, some will get reduced when I deduplicate. Originally I was going to use my old NUC skull canyon with the m.2 drives and usb 3.0 external since I just have it laying around, but I’ve realized that was not only sacrilegious, but not a good idea for integrity. Though, I can be convinced otherwise, as I could add a 2.5Gbe NIC via TB… Leaning towards ZFS and TrueNAS (though have seen some bugs with file shares on v12) or A prebuild with QNAP w ZFS / Synology w btrfs ECC vs non RAM? I’d like to keep power usage down and I don’t have use for VMs right now (have a pi running pi-hole, but can consolidate if ya’ll think it’s best), so I don’t need high specs. Frankly, a 2 bay with NVME slots and 10GBE NIC would probably work but I can’t find one. At the end of the day, I don’t want to have to baby this thing, just for it to run, but I don’t have a lot of $ or space to throw at it. Something that is reliable, usable for local editing and enables me to setup an offsite rsync/rclone or the likes to back blaze or similar. Thanks in advance if you made it this far! ~semi