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Recommend me a decent but cheap NAS (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ideally one that can use more than one disk so that i can expand it later when i can. Have some minimal experience with Synology since there's one at work and i have interacted with it a couple times and like the interface, but am not married to any brand as long as it works.

Located in EU if it makes any difference.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I ended up going with a smaller Synology as it was actually replacing a RaspberryPi + External drive setup that was failing.

At the end of the day, the Synology was much more expensive, but for me it was worth the trade-off to have a mostly plug and play setup. I can easily move files around in a GUI. I can setup torrents, even configure it to use a VPN and it all takes minutes instead of researching configurations and managing daemons and processes like I had to do previously.

Edit: Also, don't forget to take into account power consumption when reviewing options. There can be a big difference between running an old desktop 24/7 as a NAS versus a Raspberry Pi.