NAS: Old Supermicro server or synology NAS?

[camjocotem]

So before the hard drive prices go up any further (fingers crossed)

I was really hoping to get a home NAS to stream media to my TV / have it as extra storage for rest of the household but unsure what's really worth it.

 

At first glance the old supermicro server seems like it would be good (£500) here 

10 bays for £500, it wouldn't have much processing power but again I'm just after data storage, not processing power.

That said I imagine it could take up more power so it'd likely be more costly to run? But if it's not actively doing much most of the time maybe it wouldn't be that bad?

 

By comparison a similar priced Synology unit would give me 4 bays for £492 here

 

Thoughts?

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, camjocotem said:

At first glance the old supermicro server seems like it would be good (£500) here 

Those are 10 2.5 in bays. 2.5in hdds basically all suck now, so Id get a model with 3.5in drives.

 

Also those aren't cheap to ship

 

3 minutes ago, camjocotem said:

By comparison a similar priced Synology unit would give me 4 bays for £492 here

Those 3.5in bays will give you much more useable hdd space(you can get 18tb drives for it vs about 2tb are the biggest usable 2.5in drives(don't get smr drives)

 

 

 

[SupaKomputa]

37 minutes ago, camjocotem said:

10 bays for £500, it wouldn't have much processing power

Why you need 10 bays? 2.5 drives are small and slow.

Repurposing an old pc as nas only make sense if you already have one laying around. 

I would just get the synology or qnap and call it a day.

[camjocotem]

39 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Those are 10 2.5 in bays. 2.5in hdds basically all suck now, so Id get a model with 3.5in drives.

 

Also those aren't cheap to ship

 

Those 3.5in bays will give you much more useable hdd space(you can get 18tb drives for it vs about 2tb are the biggest usable 2.5in drives(don't get smr drives)

 

 

 

Ah! I didn't notice that was for 2.5" drives! (It's 2am here)

 

Similar question but for a 3.5" version 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174517018975?epid=12042443489&hash=item28a206615f:g:8c8AAOSwWIlfoYe5

 

3 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Why you need 10 bays? 2.5 drives are small and slow.

Repurposing an old pc as nas only make sense if you already have one laying around. 

I would just get the synology or qnap and call it a day.

Ignoring the 2.5" drives part (mistake on my part) 

Just seems value for money to get more bays per £

 

But figuring that there's more to it than that that I'm noticing.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, camjocotem said:

Ah! I didn't notice that was for 2.5" drives! (It's 2am here)

 

Similar question but for a 3.5" version 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174517018975?epid=12042443489&hash=item28a206615f:g:8c8AAOSwWIlfoYe5

 

Thats a barebones, so you need cpu + ram here for it to boot and those aren't cheap as its current gen.

 

But for a home nas, get the synology. Much quieter, much lower power, easier to use. And will work at the same speed on a gig network.

[camjocotem]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Thats a barebones, so you need cpu + ram here for it to boot and those aren't cheap as its current gen.

 

But for a home nas, get the synology. Much quieter, much lower power, easier to use. And will work at the same speed on a gig network.

Synology it is x]  (Didn't realise it was a barebones)

 

Will deffo look for a 10Gbe one though, we got 10Gbe lan here

[SupaKomputa]

1 minute ago, camjocotem said:

Just seems value for money to get more bays per £

Bigger drives are getting cheaper.

For me nas value is efficiency, power usage.

Those nas box is using low powered ARM or Celeron which are good enough for home usage.

A server would draw anywhere from 50-200w. And they are super loud.

[camjocotem]

I'll happily take a look at a site with a positive price trend.

I saw a 12TB drive on scan.co.uk for £299 a few weeks back (doesn't seem to be in stock there currently), going for £350 currently on amazon, 

Similar sized drives on scan at cheapest go for about £323.

Well disregard that, it seems there's a 14TB going for £298.88

 

Aside from various media the Mrs wanting to store raw game recordings is a struggle on space lol