Looking for NAS Suggestions

[Jabilee]

How much would it cost me to build a 20TB NAS for my home?

 

Planning to use it for media storage + website hosting

[manikyath]

1 hour ago, Jabilee said:

website hosting

presuming that's public facing... that belongs in a datacenter.

just basic webhosting isnt expensive at all, just do it right.

 

as for the NAS... well.. the cost of drives plus somewhere in between the price of a raspberry pi or the price of an intel xeon based home server. the information consisting of "20TB" and "media storage" gives so little detail it can be pretty much anything within the widest of price ranges.

[An0maly_76]

Following -- I'm considering doing something similar with an i3-2100 Lenovo M71E as a media machine. Amazon has Seagate IronWolf drives up to 20TB, I believe the 12TB was on sale for less than the cost of an 8. However, it seems that the WD Black 6TB I have is faster, so I may just get another of those if I do it.

[Needfuldoer]

49 minutes ago, manikyath said:

presuming that's public facing... that belongs in a datacenter.

just basic webhosting isnt expensive at all, just do it right.

Agreed. Just rent shared hosting for public-facing websites. It's cheap, and it's not worth the headache of hosting it on your home Internet connection.

 

As for your NAS, expect to spend about a grand including drives, if you want redundancy.

 

At minimum, I'd recommend a four-bay, Intel-based Synology. In my opinion, they're the easiest to use turn-key NAS appliances. The problem is, only their higher end products support faster-than-gigabit networking, and only their highest end can take 10 gig expansion cards. If all you have installed is a regular Gigabit connection though, you have your pick of their entire range. (Just be careful if you buy used, the DS415 and some other models are based on a buggy CPU and sometimes need a simple electronic repair to the motherboard to work properly.)

 

If you want to run TrueNAS or Unraid, you'll want a tower PC that can hold at least four hard drives. A mid tower Optiplex can, and for a bit more money you can get something like an HP MicroServer. Don't go any older than Sandy Bridge, because relative CPU performance will fall off a cliff (with power consumption following an equal but opposite curve). That would give you the option of running a video card for media encoding, high speed networking, more drives, and give you a higher RAM ceiling.

 

We really need to know more about what you want to do with it in order to give you more specific recommendations.

[Jabilee]

1 hour ago, Needfuldoer said:

We really need to know more about what you want to do with it in order to give you more specific recommendations.

I'm looking to use it for my Gaming + Video Storage. Also Planning to share my NAS to my friend on the internet so we can both use it.

 

Planning to max out my budget to 1000-1200$ if thats possible

[Jabilee]

Any 2 Bay Nas Drive I can get for below 450$?

[ToboRobot]

8 minutes ago, Jabilee said:

Any 2 Bay Nas Drive I can get for below 450$?

Sure, there are other options if you look around as well!

Synology 2 Bay NAS DiskStation DS720+ (Diskless) : Electronics (amazon.com)

[Jabilee]

On 6/7/2022 at 7:23 PM, ToboRobot said:

Sure, there are other options if you look around as well!

Synology 2 Bay NAS DiskStation DS720+ (Diskless) : Electronics (amazon.com)

Thanks!, I guess ill go with DS920+ do a 16TB*2 for now, Planning to add 2 more drives as time goes by. Any recommendation for Raid Configuration on a 2*16TB Drives?