NAS advice

[muddymusic]

It's about time I got all my music and movies off the pc/mac/usb etc and all in one place. I want to stream to my SONOS system and Amazon Fire stick to my tv's.

What should I be looking at, what kind of HDD's should I go for? I don't want to spend a fortune on it, just make things more convenient.

 

[K1ngarth3r]

I've been happy with Synology products, they stream directly to Smart TV's too.

For HDD I always go for Western Digital Red.

You should be able to put a nice setup together with a couple of drives for around £300...

Not sure if that's too much or too basic?

Synology offer slightly cheaper and much more expensive products too of course.

 

[pobtastic]

I swear by my Synology Diskstation, it's excellent. Although I do have the DS1515+ which is one of the more expensive models, I know others who have the media server-esque cheaper versions and they all run the same OS and whatnot ~ and they're equally as pleased with them.

I run all the slots with WD Red 4TB as they seemed at the time of purchase to be the better option for NAS (they still say "Best for NAS" on the write ups), but I'd go purple if I did it again (and could afford it) due to the AllFrame 4K support, but well any newer drives which support 4Kn will do.

pobtastic2017-11-03 11:38:25

 

[t-m]

My Synology NAS is about 6 years old now and still going strong, it's had a replacement fan and one of the drives failed but replacing both was pretty trivial.

 

[muddymusic]

Safe to say Synology is the top choice so far then!

 

[terminator2k2]

I built my own nas as at the time synology wasnt really great at transcoding HD video.....

it uses xpenology which is a cracked version of the synology software and runs great....i use it mainly for plex and storing photos etc.....

the synology software is great and very easy to use....

 

[pobtastic]

How are you finding the Galaxy Ripple plugin? Is it hot swappable?

 

[Hurray Banana]

How are you finding the Galaxy Ripple plugin? Is it hot swappable?

 

[Purity]

I have a Synology DiskStation DS214 with WD Red disks. Works very well, and is constantly updated

 

[GadgetFreak]

I have to agree, you can buy cheaper NAS's but Synology's have worked well for me and are always quick with security updates. I started with a DS210, then went to a DS412+, and now have a DS1815+.
The main reason for going for a 4+ drive bay one is that you can run the NAS with some redundancy such as Raid 5 /SHR which means any single drive can fail without any data loss. I have had both a Seagate NAS & WD Red drive fail on me but have never lost any data yet.
My current NAS has 2 WD Red 4TB, 1 Seagate NAS drive, and 3 regular Seagate desktop drives which actually run the coolest. They were bought from Argos as cased externals for under £80 each as I was hard up at the time
Since Brexit though, hard drive & NAS prices have increased from what I have seen by 15-20%. 4TB still seems to be the sweet spot for drive prices in my experience.

 

[The Last Bandit]

I been using a Synology DS210j fror 6 or 7 years without any problems, nice interface, really easy to use etc..
But recently upgraded to a QNAP210+ mainly cus I started using Plex and the Synology just was up to the job of running a Plex server and forgot about doing any transcoding on it.

 

[bbz149]

I got the Synology Diskstation DS1815, not cheap but a great NAS!!

All 8 Drives are fitted with WD Red's, again not cheap

The Apps for Torrents and other Apps are fantastic! I can be out and add a Torrent which then downloads on the NAS and the Dell PC upgraded to an i7 is a Plex Server for all the Movies ETC.

You will be hard pushed to find any NAS good enough for Transcoding more than 1 Movie at a time! The Processors in them are not really made for that!

Reminds me I need to pull it all out for its few Monthly dusting

bbz1492017-11-04 16:43:11

 

[steshell]

Another Synology fan here. I have a DS109j and a DS411j and both have worked tirelessly for years.