who can recommend me a cheap NAS solution to use at home

[aquaman2020]

Since OP asked for a cheap NAS, get a used X86 system and install Open Media Vault (should be the easiest solution as it will support SATA and you can easily get 1Gb/s ethernet. Or if you are concerned about power usage, get some flavor of ARM SOC. Do your research for SOCs with full SATA support. (there were many videos in explaining computer youtube channel)

 

[ShiningStar]

tho kalin kiwwe NAS wala AI bawitha karala photos sort karanna baha kiyalane. nodanna reddawal katha karanna giyama ohoma thamai.

ටෙක්නිකලි උත්තර දීපන් හුජ්ජ කොලුවෝ.. උබ දන්නවද ඒඅයි යූස් කරන්න අඩුම අයිඔප්ස් ගාන ස්ටෝරේජ් එකේ?

නෑස් ඉවෝල්ව් වෙනවා ඩොමෙස්ටික් යූස් වලට නෙවේ..

තොට රට යන්න සෙට් උනොත් තොගේ නෑස් එක ඈස් ඒකේ ගහන් තමයි යන්න වෙන්නේ.. ලොල්..

හුජ්ජ කොල්ලෝ දෙයක් කීවම අහපන්..

lol aa bola hujja patiyo ? rata yanakota hdd eka NAS disk station ekath ekka aran yanna barida ? yanne temprory gamanak nam hardwares tika ussan yanne nathuwa thamange niwase thiyena cloud eka internet haraha access karannath puluwan. thota kawru hari gewanawada meke ANTI NAS protest ekak karanna ? you cant force others to use what you prefer. go fly a kite podi putha

 

[Smartm]

lol aa bola hujja patiyo ? rata yanakota hdd eka NAS disk station ekath ekka aran yanna barida ? yanne temprory gamanak nam hardwares tika ussan yanne nathuwa thamange niwase thiyena cloud eka internet haraha access karannath puluwan. thota kawru hari gewanawada meke ANTI NAS protest ekak karanna ? you cant force others to use what you prefer. go fly a kite podi putha

rata yanakota hdd eka NAS disk station ekath ekka aran yanna barida ?

උබ විහිලුවටද මේ කීවේ? නැත්තන් නොදන්න කමටද?

 

[charith84]

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

1. Asus H81M motherboard - Rs. (11,000 K) 4th Gen
2. 16GB DDR 3 RAM (13k)
3. 2x 4TB hard disk (40k)
4. Core I5 4590 processor ( limited to 2 cores) got it for cheap like 12k
5. 128GB SSD for the system / OS
6. 400W power supply
7. 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.

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and don't be a joke comparing NAS to cloud solutions.
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[amilabanuka]

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

1. Asus H81M motherboard - Rs. (11,000 K) 4th Gen
2. 16GB DDR 3 RAM (13k)
3. 2x 4TB hard disk (40k)
4. Core I5 4590 processor ( limited to 2 cores) got it for cheap like 12k
5. 128GB SSD for the system / OS
6. 400W power supply
7. 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.

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and don't be a joke comparing NAS to cloud solutions.
------ Post added on May 22, 2021 at 6:45 PM

Agree with this. i kind of did the same path and end up building my own. except that i choose a Supermicro server board instead of mainstream board.
MB: X9SCM-F
CPU: 1x Intel® Xeon ™ E3-1270 (Quad core Sandy-Bridge)
RAM: 16 GB DDR-3 ECC
damn thing quite power efficient and silent. can wake up over the LAN when i need it so no need to run it all the time as well.

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about the cloud thing, it serves a bit different purpose. if the requirement is data backup, don't use google. g drive, one drive, etc are good for quick access and sharing, etc. but not for backup. they are expensive in the long run. use a provider like https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html.
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[charith84]

Agree with this. i kind of did the same path and end up building my own. except that i choose a Supermicro server board instead of mainstream board.
MB: X9SCM-F
CPU: 1x Intel® Xeon ™ E3-1270 (Quad core Sandy-Bridge)
RAM: 16 GB DDR-3 ECC
damn thing quite power efficient and silent. can wake up over the LAN when i need it so no need to run it all the time as well.

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about the cloud thing, it serves a bit different purpose. if the requirement is data backup, don't use google. g drive, one drive, etc are good for quick access and sharing, etc. but not for backup. they are expensive in the long run. use a provider like https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html.
------ Post added on May 23, 2021 at 12:33 AM

I was looking for Xeon based motherboards and realized it’s bit hard to find it in SL. From where did you get it ?

 

[ShiningStar]

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

1. Asus H81M motherboard - Rs. (11,000 K) 4th Gen
2. 16GB DDR 3 RAM (13k)
3. 2x 4TB hard disk (40k)
4. Core I5 4590 processor ( limited to 2 cores) got it for cheap like 12k
5. 128GB SSD for the system / OS
6. 400W power supply
7. 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.

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and don't be a joke comparing NAS to cloud solutions.
------ Post added on May 22, 2021 at 6:45 PM

woah thank you for sharing your NAS journey with us bro

 

[amilabanuka]

I was looking for Xeon based motherboards and realized it’s bit hard to find it in SL. From where did you get it ?

not in SL mate. didn't know that Xeon based MBs are rare in SL. i got a used one.

 

[Djice]

Using an openzfs based NAS that I made myself. Hard disks and RAM were the most expensive things to buy.
Other parts were around 300 euros or so.

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I was looking for Xeon based motherboards and realized it’s bit hard to find it in SL. From where did you get it ?

Not available in Ebay?
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[aquaman2020]

not in SL mate. didn't know that Xeon based MBs are rare in SL. i got a used one.

Why bother with Xeon for a DIY NAS?
ECC support & built in multi ethernet are nice, but not worth the effort to find parts / money IMO when you could easily achieve more or less the same functionality with consumer hardware while spending a lot less.

Do tell me if I'm missing anything.

 

[Djice]

Why bother with Xeon for a DIY NAS?
ECC support & built in multi ethernet are nice, but not worth the effort to find parts / money IMO when you could easily achieve more or less the same functionality with consumer hardware while spending a lot less.

Do tell me if I'm missing anything.

I find those 8/16 bay consumer stuff to be quite expensive. DYI is cheaper sometimes. And it's kinda fun to do such projects imo.
Just my 2 cents though.

 

[aquaman2020]

I find those 16 bay consumer stuff to be quite expensive. DYI is cheaper sometimes. And it's kinda fun to do such projects imo.
Just my 2 cents though.

I did look in to old Xeons some time ago, but then gave up since Ryzen processors seem to perform so much better than OLD Xeons while taking less power. (I live in Thailand, so it's actually cheaper to find new Ryzen than importing 2nd hand Xeons from USA)
But I assume Xeons would be fun if you live in a country where they are easily found.

 

[Djice]

I did look in to old Xeons some time ago, but then gave up since Ryzen processors seem to perform so much better than OLD Xeons while taking less power. (I live in Thailand, so it's actually cheaper to find new Ryzen than importing 2nd hand Xeons from USA)
But I assume Xeons would be fun if you live in a country where they are easily found.

I built my NAS with a Ryzen processor (I think it was a 3400G) too. Works perfectly fine and doubles as my linux machine when I need some linux time.

 

[amilabanuka]

Why bother with Xeon for a DIY NAS?
ECC support & built in multi ethernet are nice, but not worth the effort to find parts / money IMO when you could easily achieve more or less the same functionality with consumer hardware while spending a lot less.

Do tell me if I'm missing anything.

agree. but the whole thing less HDDs cost was about 150EUR. so not a bad investment. I like IPMI, as it helps managing. ECC is as you said nice to have a feature.

 

[charith84]

Using an openzfs based NAS that I made myself. Hard disks and RAM were the most expensive things to buy.
Other parts were around 300 euros or so.

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Not available in Ebay?
------ Post added on May 23, 2021 at 1:48 PM

there are! but if the NAS fails I may have to wait long time to replace the parts.
that was the main reason I decided to go with mainline components.

 

[charitha2011]

_BUMPER_

 

[Voltage]

Just find an old laptop, even a Core2Duo one is fine.
Insert a brandnew 1TB drive into the hard disk slot, and use a caddy and install another 1TB into the optical drive bay

You are good to go. Thera are plenty of OSs available for NAS, if those are complex, you can install Windows7 and create network shares, will do the same.

 

[aquaman2020]

Just find an old laptop, even a Core2Duo one is fine.
Insert a brandnew 1TB drive into the hard disk slot, and use a caddy and install another 1TB into the optical drive bay

You are good to go. Thera are plenty of OSs available for NAS, if those are complex, you can install Windows7 and create network shares, will do the same.

Laptops would work, but you may run in to expansion issues in the future. Getting an old Intel Atom / Gold series / some other low power desktop would probably be better in terms of power usage (Core2Duos are power hungry) and future proofing.

 

[EON]

who can recommend me a cheap NAS solution to use at home ? from june 1st google photos wont give us unlimited storage for free. now i decided to make my own cloud using nas

so pay and purchase cloud storage from Google

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There are many advantages in using a nas Compared to cloud.

* Unlike cloud when you decide to stop paying one day your data will still be with you

* Accessing files locally is much more faster than cloud

* You can raid your HDD if you worry about losing your data

* You have more control over your data and privacy

* You can do local streaming using (faster than cloud)

* You can even operate Nas without internet

who told you that you don't have to worry about losing data when you have a RAID setup? must be an idiot
You can decide when are you going to stop paying them and then back up the data locally before that. One doesn't decide and do it overnight.

Yes, you can save data, but that doesn't mean your solution is a reliable way to protect your data. Aparat from the RAID disks, I don't see any other redundancy in here.
A single lightning strike can make you cry and die
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Laptops would work, but you may run in to expansion issues in the future. Getting an old Intel Atom / Gold series / some other low power desktop would probably be better in terms of power usage (Core2Duos are power hungry) and future proofing.

there's a solution for that too. you can plug in a mini PCIe to data extension.. to do this you have to sacrifice your wifi...
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[meeka]

NAS Build bump