What NAS?

[Baterka]

Hi, I recently got 8TB WD Red Pro from friend and I want to use it in NAS.

I am using an old Zyxel NSA310 what is just 1 bay and also old

I am looking for some new NAS because I want reliaibility and speed.

I found that there is Zyxel NAS326 what is cheap 2 bay version. I can for this price get Synology DS119j (1bay) or DS218j (2bay) for double the price.

Why Zyxel is so much cheaper? Speeds are +- same and functions too..

I would rather go into an 2 bay NAS because of future RAID1 setup.

Are there any other good choices? Or just trust Zyxel/Synology?

Thanks

[dj_ripcord]

Zyzel is good. Synology is top tier. Depends on what you wanna do with it. Got a bunch of movies and music you're putting on the drive? Go with a NAS that supports PLEX and video encoding. Not doing that? Then anything from either of those brands will probably suit you well.

[Baterka]

1 minute ago, dj_ripcord said:

Zyzel is good. Synology is top tier. Depends on what you wanna do with it. Got a bunch of movies and music you're putting on the drive? Go with a NAS that supports PLEX and video encoding. Not doing that? Then anything from either of those brands will probably suit you well.

I will use it mainly for movies and music. I see that some NAS devices have this "encoding/transcoding" functions but I have Samsung Smart TV (2017) what dont have problem with 4k videos or mkv etc... So I dont know why I would need that..

Secondary function of NAS will be to hold backups of smaller external drives of my family (photos, videos, documents) and automatic backups of my computer.

Are there any "cheaper" variants what don't have fancy stuff, but are suitable of 100ish MB/s speeds and those functions I explained above?

[dj_ripcord]

100MB/s or 100Mbps? 100MB/s is gigabit and should be borderline within the theoretical maximums that any NAS will operate without a second NIC or 10 gig NIC.

 

Since you're not worried about transcoding, You can get a pretty cheap NAS without being affected by missing the functionality. The only thing you may be looking for feature-wise is the ability to connect to it outside your LAN so you have access to files anywhere, and a good user interface. Which you will get with any name-brand NAS that's not some chinese knockoff.

[Baterka]

23 minutes ago, dj_ripcord said:

100MB/s or 100Mbps? 100MB/s is gigabit and should be borderline within the theoretical maximums that any NAS will operate without a second NIC or 10 gig NIC.

 

Since you're not worried about transcoding, You can get a pretty cheap NAS without being affected by missing the functionality. The only thing you may be looking for feature-wise is the ability to connect to it outside your LAN so you have access to files anywhere, and a good user interface. Which you will get with any name-brand NAS that's not some chinese knockoff.

So I dont need transcoding when I have good tv right? Its just for non-smart tvs? Or how it works?

 

I meant 100MB/s, borderline is around 120 (125 theoretical). For example NSA310 limiting on 40MB/s