Home server storage thingy? halp?

[Lelouch]

I'll start by saying I'm really behind in tech, I used to post on the NCIX forums back in the early 2000's but haven't kept up since then.  (NCIX BF2 clan TV missile gg)  I did some quick homework/catchup in Dec 2013 to build my 4770k rig and haven't kept up since.

 

I'm looking for a home storage setup to backup all the pictures and videos my wife and I have been manically taking of our <year old son.  I would like it to be as simple to use as possible for my wife and I. 

 

1.) The ability to come home and upload the photos and videos quickly and hassle free.

 

2.) Redundancy.  Able to withstand shorting out and not losing everything or have mechanisms such as backups that could be removed and stored unpowered for safety or a high quality surge protection. 

 

3.) This is also going to be a gift to her so something new.

 

4.) The same as #1 but remotely when we are out and about is a bonus

 

5.) We currently use Iphones (6S and 8.)

Budget is as low as possible but willing to spend up to 500.00 CAD all in tax incl.  Would spend up to another 150.00 for surge protection. 

 

Thanks in advance everyone!

[mahyar]

budget?

there are a lot of ways to do so.

[Lelouch]

1 minute ago, mahyar said:

budget?

there are a lot of ways to do so.

Ahh I forgot to add budget thanks.  OP has been edited. 

[mahyar]

1 minute ago, Lelouch said:

Ahh I forgot to add budget thanks.  OP has been edited. 

how much storage do you need?

[Prodigy_Smit]

Mine right now is an old dell system that I salvaged and popped a few hard-drives in and raid with freenas and boom.

 

This route is the save money route:

 

Buy an old 3rd or 4th gen system.

Upgrade the system to 8 or 16gb of RAM

Buy 3 1tb or 2tb harddrives. (Depending on the storage you need.)

Buy a pci-e sata expansion card.

Connect them together and install Freenas on it.

Configure Raid Z for that redundancy.

And enjoy.

Edited October 23, 2020 by Smit Devrukhkar

[FloRolf]

You should look into Synology. 

They make pretty good NAS Systems that come with everything you need except drives.

So get something like a DS220 for ~$200 and then put 2x 4TB Ironwolf drives in there, set them up in a Raid1 and you are good to go. 

HOWEVER, keep in mind Raid is NOT a backup! I have a more complex Raid at home and do regular backups to an external HDD that I store at a different house, just to be safe. 

 

With Synology you can even set automated phone backups everytime you enter a wifi or even backup the entire NAS to a different NAS easily. So in the future you can buy a second NAS, put that into a friend's house and backup to them. 

[Lelouch]

1 minute ago, mahyar said:

how much storage do you need?

Honestly not much, I have nothing specific in mind.  I assume almost any HD today would be plenty for what it's main function would be.  Room to add more space if needed in the future is a plus.  I'm willing to spend a little more on something like Red series HD if they are actually less prone to failure.

[Lelouch]

1 hour ago, FloRolf said:

You should look into Synology. 

They make pretty good NAS Systems that come with everything you need except drives.

So get something like a DS220 for ~$200 and then put 2x 4TB Ironwolf drives in there, set them up in a Raid1 and you are good to go. 

HOWEVER, keep in mind Raid is NOT a backup! I have a more complex Raid at home and do regular backups to an external HDD that I store at a different house, just to be safe. 

 

With Synology you can even set automated phone backups everytime you enter a wifi or even backup the entire NAS to a different NAS easily. So in the future you can buy a second NAS, put that into a friend's house and backup to them. 

Thanks this seems like a great idea.  The DS220(j) or DS220+? The + is x2 the price on the egg.

 

The DJ220 + has a nice external upload/DL feature where I could have a 3rd 4TB Iron wolf drive in an external enclosure and backup the NAS data frequently easily.  The non+ seems to not have this.  How would I go about doing this with the non + 200.00 less version?

 

And what is a diskless system?  I'm very much confused as to what that means.  I see they take Hard drives are these not considered disc's?

 

 

Holy smokes things add up fast.  

 

For the DS220+ 2x2TB iron wolf drives + Seagate 1TB USB3.0 backup 875.00 CAD all in shipping and taxes included.   

 

[Salacious B Crum]

On 10/23/2020 at 5:30 AM, Lelouch said:

And what is a diskless system?  I'm very much confused as to what that means.  I see they take Hard drives are these not considered disc's?

HaHa it comes with no discs, i.e. diskless with discs it would be diskful

[remakethegame]

You don't really need enterprise grade hardware to achieve your goals. Some simple CPU 2-4 cores, 16 GB of RAM, some gaming motherboard (with 4-6 SATA ports), separated disk/USB for OS and 4 x 2 TBH drives for data. Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu) as the OS and use MDRAID to combine the hard drives into resilient RAID array. NFS or Samba SMB to share the storage to your family. Good luck with that!