Let's get NASty

[PineyCreek]

Ladies and gents:

 

Looking for a decent home NAS solution.  I'd really love to build my own 4U 24 bay unit with SAS RAID controllers, etc, but I don't have $3k+ to spend on hardware (not including HDDs) alone.  Does anyone have suggestions on prebuilt diskless solutions?  Was seriously considering the Netgear ReadyNAS 4 or 6 pay high performance models, and then just slotting in 6 or 8TB drives as the money allowed.

 

Necessary features: online cloud sync, media server (DLNA and otherwise), RAID options.

Ideal features: Lojack options, hardware real-time encryption handled by NAS configurable on a folder or file basis.

[Electronics Wizardy]

How much do you want to spend?

 

How much sorage do you need?

 

How well do you know linux and want to play with things?

 

Id go synology or qnap as they have better software, and cost about the same.

 

If you want more diy get something like a dell c2100 or r510

[PineyCreek]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

How much do you want to spend?

 

How much sorage do you need?

 

How well do you know linux and want to play with things?

 

Id go synology or qnap as they have better software, and cost about the same.

 

If you want more diy get something like a dell c2100 or r510

Looking at around 30 TB or so as a sweet spot.  24 TB would be ok if RAID 5 was in play.  Would really like to keep it under $2500 for the main unit plus cost of drives overall.  Considering it's likely I wouldn't buy all the drives at once, ideally I'd also like to buy something like WD Red or Datacenter drives since they'll likely be around for a while.  I don't mind playing with Linux but I definitely am an amateur on build-your-own Linux.  Been experimenting with Raspberry Pi and Kali and am learning a few things here and there.

[PineyCreek]

Just realized there's a better category thread for this I think...could a moderator please move this to Servers and NAS if possible?

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

Looking at around 30 TB or so as a sweet spot.  24 TB would be ok if RAID 5 was in play.  Would really like to keep it under $2500 for the main unit plus cost of drives overall.  Considering it's likely I wouldn't buy all the drives at once, ideally I'd also like to buy something like WD Red or Datacenter drives since they'll likely be around for a while.  I don't mind playing with Linux but I definitely am an amateur on build-your-own Linux.  Been experimenting with Raspberry Pi and Kali and am learning a few things here and there.

Then id get this nas.

 

https://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-2x10GbE-Hardware-Encryption-TS-831X-8G-US/dp/B01F7TNQLI/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1519537826&sr=1-2&keywords=qnap+8+bay

 

and get these drives 

 

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p?skuId=5792401

 

These are wd reds or rebraneded reds, take them out of their case, and enjoy.

[PineyCreek]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Then id get this nas.

 

https://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-2x10GbE-Hardware-Encryption-TS-831X-8G-US/dp/B01F7TNQLI/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1519537826&sr=1-2&keywords=qnap+8+bay

 

and get these drives 

 

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-8tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/5792401.p?skuId=5792401

 

These are wd reds or rebraneded reds, take them out of their case, and enjoy.

Oooh! Very nice! Thank you for the suggestions!