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Sorry in advance if this is posted in the wrong place. My spouse has a NAS server (6 TB) that is full. The NAS is over 10 years old, only allows two hard drives, and he said it is to old to add larger hard drives to. I agreed to a new NAS server when black Friday comes. I asked him what the cost will be today, and he said he wasn't sure, but probably around $3,000. This seems incredibly high to me. This was suppose to be a a mid tier setup. I've asked what size the hard drives will be, but he hasn't clarified. Is this a reasonable price? Is this crazy high? I know I could look some of this up myself, but if I do my spouse will likely say I don't know what I am talking about, so I was curious to see what outside opinions are on what they think this should cost.

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3 minutes ago, ramekin said:

I asked him what the cost will be today, and he said he wasn't sure, but probably around $3,000.

That's a lot (assuming USD) for a NAS. Sounds like they specked out the tippy-toppiest-of-line units and filled it with the biggest HDDs you can get.

 

Which isn't to say I haven't spent that much on my NAS, but I use it for tinkering too...

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4 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

That's a lot (assuming USD) for a NAS. Sounds like they specked out the tippy-toppiest-of-line units and filled it with the biggest HDDs you can get.

 

Which isn't to say I haven't spent that much on my NAS, but I use it for tinkering too...

Yes, I'm from the USA. The way he is talking about it makes it seem like it would be very difficult to get one under this price range. I was thinking it would be closer to $1000, maybe $2000 on the high end. What would you say is a price for a mid tier NAS? I'm totally just guessing on hard drives size, but 4 20TB  hard drives?

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13 minutes ago, ramekin said:

so I was curious to see what outside opinions are on what they think this should cost.

I spend over $500 on mine which is a 4 bay unit and that was with 1x 8TB drive that I shucked from an External  hard drive. 

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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29 minutes ago, ramekin said:

Sorry in advance if this is posted in the wrong place. My spouse has a NAS server (6 TB) that is full. The NAS is over 10 years old, only allows two hard drives, and he said it is to old to add larger hard drives to. I agreed to a new NAS server when black Friday comes. I asked him what the cost will be today, and he said he wasn't sure, but probably around $3,000. This seems incredibly high to me. This was suppose to be a a mid tier setup. I've asked what size the hard drives will be, but he hasn't clarified. Is this a reasonable price? Is this crazy high? I know I could look some of this up myself, but if I do my spouse will likely say I don't know what I am talking about, so I was curious to see what outside opinions are on what they think this should cost.

Here in Canada, you can get a 2 bay NAS for 235 Canadaroos, and a 8TB HDD for 204. In total, that'd be maybe 730, and that's after tax, with 16TB of storage. If he lived 10 years with a 6tb drive, he can live another 30 years with 16tb.

Edited by Zenny232323
16, not 18 TB, oops.
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