my experience on NAS:
I was in need of getting a NAS solution long time back, after doing my own research, came to a decision to build a NAS by my own
my main intension was to reduce the power consumption and stream movies and tv series to all smart tvs and smart devices in my house and backup my phone to the NAS automatically. I have measured all the devices through a professional power meter to calculate its consumption.
I have tried so many options as
- 1. Got a Synology but its performance are limited and expensive to upgrade. sometimes, its starting to lag and heat when x265 are streaming. power consumption was around 20 to 35W and sometimes its spiking when two of hard disk are in use
- 2.Got SBC ( Raspberry PI 4) connected Hard disk through USB to SATA converters. unable to stream x265 yet the power consumption is less than 15W. Disk reading speed was okay 30 to 60 MBs per second but under long time operations, speed is dropping to 10/15 MBs. after couple of months USB to SATA converter stopped working.
when its comes to SBC and Sinology, you may have to worry about the parts of it because its kind of expensive to replace. after going through all solutions I have made a pc with below specs
- Asus H81M motherboard - Rs. (11,000 K) 4th Gen
- 16GB DDR 3 RAM (13k)
- 2x 4TB hard disk (40k)
- Core I5 4590 processor ( limited to 2 cores) got it for cheap like 12k
- 128GB SSD for the system / OS
- 400W power supply
- Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini-ITX Computer Case
Installed TrueNAS ( Free NAS) and its working fine for 2 years now. power consumption is around 25W to 40W. hard disk are set to go idle and spin down when its not using for 10 minutes. Asus motherboard has an option to select energy saving mode. I have enabled it and reduced the core limit to 2. now I don't have to worry about the NAS since you can easily find RAMs and Motherboard for cheap price.
there are several NAS os if you want to try such as TrueNAS, OpenMediaVault
https://elakiri.com/threads/who-can...n-to-use-at-home.1989647/page-3#post-26444111
