Deathwing
<Bronze Donator>
Part of me thinks we have a thread for NAS but I couldn't find one. Please delete/merge if we do.
My storage HDD on my desktop died last week, so it got me considering buying a NAS. Nothing that important was lost, but it got me thinking that if the external HDD I use for backup ever fails, then I'm fucked. I know next to nothing about the NAS market. I know of the QNAP and Synology brands, but it seems a lot of other players have entered recently.
Basically, I'm looking for a somewhat budget-friendly model that will facilitate backups easier(so the external doesn't have to be trundled about) while also able to serve up media files to 1-3 clients at a time. The mysteriousness of how much *average* power a NAS downs per month has always made me leery about buying one. Can anyone estimate how much kWH their NAS uses per month?
I'm thinking QNAP's TS-231 is the best cheap option currently. I'm also considering the TS-251 because it seems to pack much more power. Supposedly you can do things like run a torrent client off it. But for some reason(maybe I'm wrong?), running a torrent off a NAS seems like a good way to kill the drives fast.
Speaking of drives...what to use? Are these WD Red's really the best option? Why? And what RAID configuration? I got out of the RAID game when SSDs came up, and all I was using was RAID 0. I was figuring of using RAID 1, but there seems to be a lot of ambiguity on the safety and usefulness of RAID 5, 6, or 10. I'm not even sure any of those are possible with 2 bay NAS.
My storage HDD on my desktop died last week, so it got me considering buying a NAS. Nothing that important was lost, but it got me thinking that if the external HDD I use for backup ever fails, then I'm fucked. I know next to nothing about the NAS market. I know of the QNAP and Synology brands, but it seems a lot of other players have entered recently.
Basically, I'm looking for a somewhat budget-friendly model that will facilitate backups easier(so the external doesn't have to be trundled about) while also able to serve up media files to 1-3 clients at a time. The mysteriousness of how much *average* power a NAS downs per month has always made me leery about buying one. Can anyone estimate how much kWH their NAS uses per month?
I'm thinking QNAP's TS-231 is the best cheap option currently. I'm also considering the TS-251 because it seems to pack much more power. Supposedly you can do things like run a torrent client off it. But for some reason(maybe I'm wrong?), running a torrent off a NAS seems like a good way to kill the drives fast.
Speaking of drives...what to use? Are these WD Red's really the best option? Why? And what RAID configuration? I got out of the RAID game when SSDs came up, and all I was using was RAID 0. I was figuring of using RAID 1, but there seems to be a lot of ambiguity on the safety and usefulness of RAID 5, 6, or 10. I'm not even sure any of those are possible with 2 bay NAS.