Do you use a NAS?

Do you use a NAS?

  • Yes at home

    Votes: 111 47.8%

  • Yes at work

    Votes: 45 19.4%

  • No

    Votes: 95 40.9%

  • Other

    Votes: 14 6.0%
  • Total voters
    232
Raspberry Pi 400 with USB3 1TB external drive. All I need.
 
Currently using 2 Qnap NAS boxes

I use my NAS boxes as a media server, general storage as well as a backup medium.
 
SauRoNZA said:
It’s pretty much why I went for UnRaid in the first place since you can start with one drive and then mix and match.

Seem to recall I started with 1 x 4TB then later added another but with no redundancy.

At some point had a spare 1TB and added that as a cache drive.

Scored a deal on a 5TB and then added that as a parity drive and now it was finally redundant.

Then later still got my hands on a 6TB drive and replaced the parity drive with that.

Scored another 6TB and now I was out of slots so the cache drive had to go.

This all happened over many years.

I think as it stands right now it’s 2 x 6TB, 2x5TB and 1x4TB.

So I’m limited by the parity drive now and could only take them all up to 6TB, or I need to replace that first and then start upgrading the rest.

Probably the next step would be to just buy two large drives at once and replace the parity as well as 4TB in one shot.
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What box you put this in?
 
Other. I set up and maintain units at some of my clients. I personally use cloud backup. Would love to test drive the hybrid solutions Synology uses.
 
I use a Raspberri Pi 4B with Openmediavault for all my media files. I access my media through Plex.
 
Dropbox and iCloud has my entire life.
I used to use Time Machine with the AirPort Extreme but these days syncing files is working so well I don’t need it. Ive hot 800Gb of photos on Dropbox that’s my cameras collection since 2006. These days I only take pics with a phone so it’s all on iCloud as are my docs, files, etc .
 
Rouxenator said:
No, but I love this nifty little RAID device :
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I recently looked at that RCT hard drive enclosure with the intention to fill it with old laptop hard drives and attach it to my router's usb port as a 'file history' / basic backup device. I would appreciate any feedback from an owner regarding the following questions:
- How noisy is the fan?
- Does it stay on permanently or only come on when the drives need cooling?
- Do the hard drives power down after a period of inactivity to reduce wear and noise? (e.g. after 20 minutes)
- Power consumption (watts)
 
HP microserver mainly to store my photos (close to 3TB, digital since 2006 and scans from earlier).

Built one more file server recently that is close to my main box as primary backup.
 
bobcpt said:
I recently looked at that RCT hard drive enclosure with the intention to fill it with old laptop hard drives and attach it to my router's usb port as a 'file history' / basic backup device. I would appreciate any feedback from an owner regarding the following questions:
- How noisy is the fan?
- Does it stay on permanently or only come on when the drives need cooling?
- Do the hard drives power down after a period of inactivity to reduce wear and noise? (e.g. after 20 minutes)
- Power consumption (watts)
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Glad to answer some of that for you :
  • The fan is silent, and if it does become noisy in time you can unplug it.
  • From what I have seen it is always on at a low speed.
  • Yes - the hard drives do power down when not used for a while.
  • Less than 12 watt since the power adapter is 12v / 1a
 
bump

I see you can now virtualize both Synology and Qnap (Qutscloud) onto Vmware, Proxmox etc.
 
Mzezman said:
What's the issue
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Google Drive request and download restrictions.

Using the default datasync app on the nas downloads fail like 75% of the time, using the Google drive app on Windows hits a download cap. Can export from Google drive via chrome but is a complete faff and locks chrome up until the download finishes.
 
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