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NAS RAID Arrays - What are you using?
« on: September 27, 2013, 05:32:27 PM »
I am looking to finally pick up a NAS RAID Array (not looking to build my own as I know could) - What are others using on this site?

Looking at Drobo, Synology, Thecus, etc

Need 5+ bays, would like the ability to upgrade in place (i.e. swap lower capacity drives with higher capacity, possibly add additional drives as time goes on (start with 3), etc)

Not including drives don't want to spend over $800.

Would prefer an onboard USB or eSATA for xfering files between offline drives

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Re: NAS RAID Arrays - What are you using?
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2013, 06:06:01 PM »
I've been running a synology ds 1511+ for a few years now and have been VERY happy with my purchase.  It has 5 drive bays and permits you to upgrade in place (I started with 5 2tb wd green drives and upgraded to 5 3tb wd red drives) -- It also allows for 5 bay expansion bays to be added via esata connectors. I get GREAT speeds x-fering from an external sata>esata drive adaptor and can transfer to the synology over my gigabyte lan at speeds that approach internal transfer rates in my pc. 

Its software is robust and easy to use -- I've set it up to allow multiple users to access stuff via a web interface and it allows me to send folks download links for individual files/directories.

I believe you can get this at your budget -- recommend using wd red drives, as they're built for NAS use


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Re: NAS RAID Arrays - What are you using?
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2013, 06:13:49 PM »
Qnap makes the best, imo.  Very intuitive GUI.  Rock solid construction.  Loads of Apps, including Logitech Music Server.  Pricey.  I haven't even scratched the full potential of mine, but I'm digging the experience so far.  I use mine mainly as a media server, fwiw.   

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Re: NAS RAID Arrays - What are you using?
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2013, 09:29:20 AM »
Right from what it am reading it looks like the following are good:
New Lacie 5big NAS (old version isn't)
Synology DS-1x1x+
Qnap DL-x69 series

Lacie is $500
Synology starts at $800
Qnap starts at $750
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Re: NAS RAID Arrays - What are you using?
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2013, 07:07:27 PM »
Synology's support of expansion bays via one of the dual esata interfaces is a nice option -- lets you add another set of drives later.  Not sure if the others provide this (and not sure if it's important to you)

Pretty important on any raid to exercise caution before using wd green drives or other consumer drives -- their power saving settings can fool a raid into thinking the drive's defective when faced with a delay in drive spin-up.  That said, I didn't have that problem with my synology when using 5x 2tb wd greens, but chose to upgrade to 3tb wd reds (raid-specific) rather than tempt fate -- used the "old" greens to back up the raid.  Was able to perform an in-place upgrade on my synology from the 2tb-3tb drives by replacing the drives one at a time and letting it rebuild -- took around a week total . . . .


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Re: NAS RAID Arrays - What are you using?
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2013, 01:47:39 PM »
My budget was chopped so I had to go the homebuilt route

What is the best "NAS" OS?

I know of FreeNAS but it looks like you need a lot of RAM (I.e. 16gb) for best perf using ZFS - plus it is based on FreeBSD (which is ok but I still would prefer a Linux based solution)
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Re: NAS RAID Arrays - What are you using?
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2013, 07:46:24 PM »
this is interesting, looks like you can roll your own synology (a-la hackintosh) as long as you use supported hardware -- see http://www.avsforum.com/t/1460222/how-to-roll-your-own-synology-diskstation-for-nas-update-5-28-2013-dsm-4-2-3211

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« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2013, 10:35:32 PM »
Nice - may have to give it a try
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Re: NAS RAID Arrays - What are you using?
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2013, 08:28:31 PM »
After thinking this over I am just going to migrate my HTPC over to a larger case and use Intel Raid-5 with 3 x 4TB - Should last me a few years till they add drive expansion to ZFS and port to Linux via OpenZFS - needs to mature.

The Synology Hack sounds nice but I don't want Synology to back door a patch that could brick the unit (don't know if this is possible but you never know).




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Re: NAS RAID Arrays - What are you using?
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2013, 02:41:02 PM »
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