Picking a NAS system

[ExplodingTNT]

Title says it all: I'm trying to pick a NAS system to replace my aging Netgear ReadyNAS 102, which only gives me 50mbps read/write on my 2TB WD Reds when I'm lucky.

 

I'm thinking about unRAID, as Linus has given it a lot of coverage and shown its potential for future expansion with the parity system and VM function. But, ReadyNAS has BTRFS snapshots, which I think would be great if a file was accidentally deleted or encrypted by ransomware to be able to roll back.

 

Criteria:

High performance (I want to be able to max out HDD speed, and maybe SSD cache)

File versioning/snapshots are nice

10Gbe now or upgradability/multiple 1gbe ports for aggregation is cool

Prebuilt or DIY is OK

4 bay or more

 

Budget: Flexible, but not more than $600 (my wallet thanks you in advance)

 

Thanks for helping me out!

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

You can get something like this if you want a premade nas https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075N1Z9LT/ref=psdc_13436301_t1_B075N17DM6

 

You get 4 bays, a faster cpu, good software, and can expand with more bays if you wan.t

 

 

What are you using the nas for? what type of storage?

 

 

If you want diy, there are a few os options. unraid is fine, slow write speeds(cache can help, but still bad after cache is full, and reads are limited to one drives speed). Freenas will work well with speed and snapshots. BTRFS should be fine if you like playing around in linux.

 

 

 

Be sure to back this up, you need backups of the nas if you care about the data.

[Pixel5]

id recommend a Synology 918+ as it has almost everything you asked for except 10Gbe but at least it has two LAN ports for link aggregation.

 

Your budget is enough to buy the NAS itself but you gonna need to buy drives of whatever size is enough for you.

[ExplodingTNT]

7 hours ago, Pixel5 said:

id recommend a Synology 918+ as it has almost everything you asked for except 10Gbe but at least it has two LAN ports for link aggregation.

 

Your budget is enough to buy the NAS itself but you gonna need to buy drives of whatever size is enough for you.

Do you think that for the money I could build a better DIY box? That thing is like $700 CAD and runs on a Celeron...

 

The BTRFS features of that box does look very good though...

[Pixel5]

21 hours ago, ExplodingTNT said:

Do you think that for the money I could build a better DIY box? That thing is like $700 CAD and runs on a Celeron...

 

The BTRFS features of that box does look very good though...

you could surely build a ryzen based system and DIY something, the premium you pay with Synology is for working hardware that is very efficient and a matching software that is easy to configure for the average person.

 

if you know servers in and out and could basically do this in your sleep a DIOY box is certainly a good idea but will also come with higher power consumption.

But for the things you want which are mostly related to transfer speeds and having option to use SSD Cache you dont need a strong CPU, im running a 918+ by myself and easily max out both LAN ports while transcoding two 4K videos at the same time as well as running some Docker containers.

 

i also thought about building my own as i spend a total of about 1200€ on this nas including NVME SSD and two 8TB HDD´s but i decided against it for efficiency and reliability reasons as well as ease of use.

 

Synology is easy enough that even my Wife can use the NAS for things which was also very important for me.