expired Posted by DealiusCaesar | Staff • Oct 27, 2023
Oct 27, 2023 6:02 PM
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expired Posted by DealiusCaesar | Staff • Oct 27, 2023
Oct 27, 2023 6:02 PM
Asustor Drivestor 2 Personal 2-Bay NAS Storage + 2 x 16TB Seagate Exos X18 Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s HDD $555 + Free Shipping
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No. I would recommend at least a 4 bays for data holder. I would recommend 2 parity. The other drive dying during rebuild is going to be a sad sad day.
For cheap build, go for omv on old computers. You can get old nvidia gpu to deal with transcoding. Even a trash computer from 5 years ago can do this. Get all your old 1tb and 0.5tb drives together.
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If you want to play your Plex locally within your network then you don't really need transcoding, you can play original content as is without taking any hit on CPU. If your requirement is to transcode then get something like a mid tier intel gaming desktops with atleast Nvidia 1660 graphics card. You will find the deals on Slickdeals for about $500-$600 + disk cost. One additional advantage to get out by doing this is, you can install your own NAS OS, or virtualize it with Proxmox, and you still have enough horsepower to run containers and VMs for other things you want to do.
I can't use Amazon cloud or ill be in
This NAS has 1GB of non expandable RAM so you will be limited on how many docker container applications you can run on this NAS. (I am not planning on runny many apps on this, since I already have a home built NAS that I run my virtual machines and docker applications on.)
I have this NAS in my Office near me. The NAS is quiet but the Drives are not, they make clunking noises as they do seeks while in use.
The NAS puts the drives asleep not while not being used. I am not sure if that can be adjusted, I have not looked yet.
Seems like a nice starter NAS, but if you plan on running a lot of Apps, a NAS with more RAM would be better.