1st NAS

[Oubaas Nic]

Good day.

I am a first time NAS buyer but I am on a strict budget.

I live in Namibia and would like to get a NAS driver to serve as a media server for photos and videos my wife and I take. Incase a phone gets stolen or lost.

Can anybody get me a good recommendation on one with at least 2 bays.

 

Regards and thanks

 

[DragonMaster436]

Not knowing your budget, I will just send some Ideas..

 

If you are ok with taking maybe an old desktop pc or even building a pc for a server, you can make a decent system using something like Trunas. Old Desktop, you may want to add more storage depending on what's already in there..

 

If you don't really want to go down the path of building or tinkering with your own server build, you could go with a pre-build. Synology has been around for a while and makes pretty nice systems. You will want to buy your own drives but it comes with an OS that tends to be a little more intuitive than other server OSs

 

UGreen is another  consumer NAS company just like Synology. UGreen is newer I think so there software may not be as tuned, but not bad enough for me not to recommend it. I would seriously consider there NAS boxes. 

[Bdavis]

TrueNAS built on an old workstation would be my first choice for a budget build. Synology would be my second choice.

[Oubaas Nic]

4 hours ago, Bdavis said:

TrueNAS built on an old workstation would be my first choice for a budget build. Synology would be my second choice.

Thanks appreciate the help

[Oubaas Nic]

10 hours ago, DragonMaster436 said:

Not knowing your budget, I will just send some Ideas..

 

If you are ok with taking maybe an old desktop pc or even building a pc for a server, you can make a decent system using something like Trunas. Old Desktop, you may want to add more storage depending on what's already in there..

 

If you don't really want to go down the path of building or tinkering with your own server build, you could go with a pre-build. Synology has been around for a while and makes pretty nice systems. You will want to buy your own drives but it comes with an OS that tends to be a little more intuitive than other server OSs

 

UGreen is another  consumer NAS company just like Synology. UGreen is newer I think so there software may not be as tuned, but not bad enough for me not to recommend it. I would seriously consider there NAS boxes. 

Thanks. Mutch appreciate. How is the torshiba nas hdds?

[DragonMaster436]

2 hours ago, Oubaas Nic said:

Thanks. Mutch appreciate. How is the torshiba nas hdds?

Never used them myself but I've heard of them before. Biggest thing to look out for will be making sure you get CMR drives.

You don't want SMR for a NAS.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Synology if its in your budget