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Synology NAS Enclosures: DS220+ 2-Bay $240, DS923+ 4-Bay
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All these people talking about Unraid setups, custom boxes that use a ton of power, loud fans in a big chassis, etc. just doesn't really appeal to me. This stuff needs to pass the WAF.
I work on enterprise IT architecture every day. I definitely have the skills to do this and have in the past. But I have a wife and kids and a home to maintain, and honestly, Synology does it well, and I don't want to waste my time.
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All can be had for under $300 with most hovering around the $200 range and feature multiple 2.5Gb LAN ports (some even have 10Gb SFP+ ports) so that you can actually utilize all this storage bandwidth. They also have QuickSync.
You can connect these right up to an eSATA or LAN based hot swap chassis and have a significantly better NAS with most of the benefits you've outlined within the price range of Synology.
It may not sound easy, but it's about as complicated as if you were trying to explain Synology to someone who just bought an external hard drive for their backup needs.
The 4-core CPU would have been nice on the DS224+ model, but $60 saved is still an ok trade-off.
All these people talking about Unraid setups, custom boxes that use a ton of power, loud fans in a big chassis, etc. just doesn't really appeal to me. This stuff needs to pass the WAF.
I work on enterprise IT architecture every day. I definitely have the skills to do this and have in the past. But I have a wife and kids and a home to maintain, and honestly, Synology does it well, and I don't want to waste my time.
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An SSD is good for IOPs (running a VM remotely via NFS share) or for 50+ users hammering the server constantly (IOPs, and concurrent access, both of which an SSD excels at); for just home use, there's little to no benefit.
I mention that last bit because the old Synology models from 2014 or so couldn't present a volume > 16TB. Annoying when drive sizes got larger...
I don't mind paying a premium for Synology but none of the models I'm looking at (923+ and 1522+) have an option for hardware transcoding.
I was planning to build an unRAID box but this deal makes Synology very tempting.
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I don't mind paying a premium for Synology but none of the models I'm looking at (923+ and 1522+) have an option for hardware transcoding.
I was planning to build an unRAID box but this deal makes Synology very tempting.
Here's the start to finish guide for Plex & Friends on Synology. Scripted and fully complete. https://trash-guides.info/Hardlin.../Synology/
Anything can run a Plex server that never transcodes. But you mentioned it, so it's worth saying again: get Intel, plus Plexpass, for Plex servers in that use case.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "add a mini PC to a NAS" but mapping a drive within Windows so you can access disk SMB shares on the NAS is trivial. 'net use * \\NAS.IP.Addre.ss\Sharename' will do it, or you can do it all in the Windows GUI.
If you don't wish to run things (like Plex, but there are a hundred or hundreds of apps, plus Docker everything) then getting a basic, cheaper ARM model (the non-plus, or the J-series) is likely more than enough for you, at some cost savings.
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The Dell WS has a cost. The one I got was $254
It's loud. Hot. Uses far more power than the Synology. Change fans (cheap), you can put it to sleep when not in use. I gurantee that with three quiet fans, its quieter than a Synology (again, I have one, it's not that quiet even with Noctua fans in it. The spinning drives almost always make the most noise.
Requires a nVidia card, uses even more power.
No 3 year warranty, nor professional support. You can actually purchase this for a small fee
It's not like the list I provided at all!
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