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Dell MD3220, Good For Home NAS?

SGRacing
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I could potentially pick up a pair of Dell MD3220s at auction in about a week for a good price. Would these be a good choice for my first NAS. These are empty but there are several lots of drives up for auction too. Is there anything I should know before I bid or is this just not a good choice for a home NAS.

Planning on using primarily for PLEX and GoPro storage from my races.

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Well they seem to be 2.5 drive only, so not great for nas use normally.

 

Also is only a sas enclosure, so you still need a computer for hte network connection nas part.

 

Id personally skip it for a home nas.

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57 minutes ago, SGRacing said:

I could potentially pick up a pair of Dell MD3220s at auction in about a week for a good price. Would these be a good choice for my first NAS. These are empty but there are several lots of drives up for auction too. Is there anything I should know before I bid or is this just not a good choice for a home NAS.

Planning on using primarily for PLEX and GoPro storage from my races.

what do you need as a nas ? 4, 8 tb ? This seems like it's gonna be overkill and kind of uselessly loud for such a task (and electricity-thirsty)

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17 hours ago, givingtnt said:

what do you need as a nas ? 4, 8 tb ? This seems like it's gonna be overkill and kind of uselessly loud for such a task (and electricity-thirsty)

The minimum size I'd like to start with is 32TB. My Plex library is 6TB and growing constantly but the big storage problem is the GoPro footage. I run get about 500GB of raw footage per weekend which is then edited and uploaded to YT. So far I have just over 8TB of data in total.

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53 minutes ago, SGRacing said:

The minimum size I'd like to start with is 32TB. My Plex library is 6TB and growing constantly but the big storage problem is the GoPro footage. I run get about 500GB of raw footage per weekend which is then edited and uploaded to YT. So far I have just over 8TB of data in total.

TBH, with critical data I wouldn't bother doing it myself.
Have a look at the Synology DS1621+, it's Ryzen-based and far superior to anything your old server can provide.

They has proven itself quite reliable in the past and, well. you won't have to make sure everything stays perfect and in working condition as much as if you ran it yourself.

Though you might also want to take a look at @Den-Fi's DIY nas build if that's more your thing:

 

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47 minutes ago, givingtnt said:

TBH, with critical data I wouldn't bother doing it myself.
Have a look at the Synology DS1621+, it's Ryzen-based and far superior to anything your old server can provide.

They has proven itself quite reliable in the past and, well. you won't have to make sure everything stays perfect and in working condition as much as if you ran it yourself.

Though you might also want to take a look at @Den-Fi's DIY nas build if that's more your thing:

 

I assume synology fixed the fatal power issue? I remember gamers nexus and possibly hardware Canucks both lost all data on synology units. 

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