Looking to upgrade my NAS need advice. (lemmy.world)

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So currently I am running a 4 bay Synology DS423+. I’ve upgraded it to have 32gb ram and a 10g network port. I am looking to upgrade to something with more bays like 12+. I was looking at the DS2422+ since it is 12 bays and I could transfer my ram from my current synology to it.

Now if I build one myself something I’ve never done is it easy to just move my storage over and not lose any data and be able to access it? I am running 4x 12TB in raid 5 in my current. It’s mainly my backup, plex files and also running qbit and tautulli. I saw some people recommend 45homelab HL15 would that be a good swap?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

For DIY consider a setup that supports ECC RAM to help prevent corruption. Any good server motherboard should do.

Unraid is pretty easy to get going on. That's probably the direction I would take in your situation.

Also, if you're not doing 3-2-1 backup now might be a good time to consider an off-site backup plan. That 4-bay Synology at a friend's house with a VPN path would be an option for critical data. You could give them some partitioned space on there and on your new NAS to compensate for the power usage. Setup Borg or Restic and it'll be encrypted on the remote NAS, and benefit from incremental and dedupe to minimize bandwidth usage.

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