How big is your NAS?

[anabioz]

So, if I'm reading this right..... unraid is probably the NAS software I want to use if I want to incorporate docker instances for things like plex/kodi/jellyfin, or am I better off just doing those on a second N100 mini-pc?

I own 5 unRAID licenses. It is a "set it and forget it" type of setup for me and honestly, doing over IT since early 2000s - I am no longer in the mood constantly troubleshooting stuff for basic media functionality.

TrueNAS (Scale) is a good alternative as well, but it has it's own twerks.

I'd recommend unRAID or TrueNAS for your media and backup stuff.

For a hypervisor I run proxmox, love it (originally was on VMWare ESXi).

For my router and some home ids/ips I use a mix of opnsense with suricicata and sophos firewall xg (home edition).

 

[anabioz]

Crap, went to commit to the WD 12TB X2 bundle and it's expired.

Guess I'll wait for another sale. (The current 2X "deal" is for 24TB drives @ $1250)

edit: There's a 22GB Ironwolf pro drive for $545 if I'm just going for a non mirrored single disk setup. Hrmmmm..... $490 after new user code......

I shut down my Chia farm, I have some 10TB drives if you are interested.

I test all my drives with HDTunePro before shipping out:

 

[crazyea]

I shut down my Chia farm, I have some 10TB drives if you are interested.

I test all my drives with HDTunePro before shipping out:

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I miss defragging. lol

 

[sswilson]

I miss defragging. lol

Watching the boxes move around was cathartic

 

[sswilson]

This is turning into more of a build log than a general storage question.

Just grabbed one of the 22TB ironwolf pro drives @ $490. My intention is to use it as a large parity drive with an array of 10TB drives (still in negotiations, but I'm shooting for 3X 10TB data drives and one 10TB spare). My thinking on having the oversized parity drive is that it will allow me to replace the 10TB drives with larger ones when the time comes.

 

[Babrbarossa]

I have been debating trying NAS for our small business for a couple of years - I have a couple of small, old NAS systems that I never ended up using that much, but I am wondering if a new, up-to-date system would be good to use as our file sharing and storage drive - we currently use google drive but need to download and upload things before you can edit it and you can't do anything with zipped folders unless you download and unzip, plus it's slow.

 

[sswilson]

I have been debating trying NAS for our small business for a couple of years - I have a couple of small, old NAS systems that I never ended up using that much, but I am wondering if a new, up-to-date system would be good to use as our file sharing and storage drive - we currently use google drive but need to download and upload things before you can edit it and you can't do anything with zipped folders unless you download and unzip, plus it's slow.

What kind of storage size are you currently using?

I wonder if one of the WD "cloud storage" devices might be an easy plug/play experience?

 

[Babrbarossa]

We're using Google Drive now - we're using 18 TB now on there!

Maybe using a hybrid of Google Drive and NAS might be best, but it wouldn't save us money - using the NAS as an automated backup for our hard drives while using Google Drive for safe storage that can't burn down in a house fire.

 

[Marzipan]

are you just happy to see me or is that a NAS in your pocket?

 

[sswilson]

We're using Google Drive now - we're using 18 TB now on there!

Maybe using a hybrid of Google Drive and NAS might be best, but it wouldn't save us money - using the NAS as an automated backup for our hard drives while using Google Drive for safe storage that can't burn down in a house fire.

I'm definitely not the source you need to tell you if a NAS would work for your situation, but from my experience over the last couple of days I can tell you that 20TB+ capacity is not going to be cheap, especially if you want redundancy.

Best I'm seeing (new) at the moment is 22TB Ironwolf Pros @ $490 (after current discount + 10% new user discount) so you'd be looking at $1K minimum for a mirrored setup just in HDDs alone. NAS enclosures seem to average somewhere around $500 for the lower end models if you didn't want to roll your own server.