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Any cheap 2-bay NAS suggestions?

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I'm currently looking for a moderately-priced(same or less than $200 USD) NAS for home usage.

I found these manufacturers(brands):

 

* Asustor

* Thecus

* Synology

* Qnap

* Buffalo

* WD (My Cloud)

* Netgear

* Seagate

 

Any good suggestions?

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Do you need anything other than basic file serving stuff? You can get an old Dell OptiPlex that would work as a brilliant NAS for free. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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2 minutes ago, Agent32277 said:

Are there any specific features besides basic file sharing on your network that you are looking for?

Not really, basically my usage of it will be a simple file storage and viewing file over the net.

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3 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Do you need anything other than basic file serving stuff? You can get an old Dell OptiPlex that would work as a brilliant NAS for free. 

I'm worried about the consumption of electricity...

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8 minutes ago, PenPoint said:

I'm worried about the consumption of electricity...

My old OptiPlex 330 has been running as a NAS for about a year. It doesn’t consume too much power. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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I can wholeheartedly recommend the Synology j series. As far as a basic NAS goes, you can't really beat it for the price, especially if you take the user friendliness into account.

 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0ZX6JP6045&cm_re=ds218j-_-22-108-688-_-Product

PC Specs - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D - MSI B550M Mortar - 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4-3600 @ CL16 - ASRock RX7800XT - 660p 1TBGB & Crucial P5 1TB - Fractal Define Mini C - CM V750v2 - Windows 11 Pro

 

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