Nice, thank you for the recommendation. Both of these sound super useful especially since I do a decent amount of both. Will for sure check this out.Do you take photos on your phone? Use DS Photo to automatically pull those photos off your phone and store them on your server. I have mine do that and then it backs it up to CrashPlan. It's all done in the background automatically and is nice. I also use DS Note to synchronize shopping lists and other notes between me and my wife.
"Regular drive"?PSY・S;228516990 said:I've been looking into ways of making my media collection more portable and it seems a NAS would be a good solution, but I'm not sure which is best for my needs.
I mainly want to store my music files on a network drive and make them as accessible as any local file. I want to be able to play and edit them through MusicBee with no hitches.
I'm also thinking of moving my Blu-ray collection to the network. Like the music files I want to be able to easily access the .MKVs and stream them with MPC-HC (so I can use madVR).
I want something that can essentially act like a regular drive with regular folders. I've been looking at the 2/6TB WD My Cloud but I'm not sure if it's a good fit for my needs or not. I also see in the Q&A section that it can only be accessed over the network and not directly through USB which may be a problem when copying large files. Should I go for it? Are there better options?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KU686L4/?tag=neogaf0e-20
"Regular drive"?
Have you ever used a network share before? They can be assigned an drive letter, and behave like a "normal drive", for the most part.
Moving a NAS around is asking for disaster.
Ethernet isn't a problem for even the largest files.
I'd strongly suggest a 2-5 bay Synology, and run RAID 1 on a 2 bay, or SHR on a 5 bay. You can read/write at over 100MB/s, which should be plenty. If you need faster speed, you need to get into 10 gigabit Ethernet.
Look at Qnap or building your own via unRAID or freeNAS.
Don't buy NAS solutions from WD or Seagate.
DAS from them is fine.
If you need it to be even more like a normal drive, Synology products can host iSCSI volumes.
So I got my Synology NAS going now. Any point in running/using the VPN server on it?
Absolutely. Aside from being a way to get back to your home network without opening up a ton of ports for each Synology service you want to access remotely (you'll just need to open up ports for VPN) it's a nice thing to have to protect yourself when using public WiFi assuming you don't already have a VPN service you can use.
How secure is Synology's implementation? I've always been hesitant to open up my home network to the outside world in any way, shape or form for that reason.
PSY・S;228542178 said:Okay, so if I get a Synology device I just need to insert my own HDDs and use RAID to make them function as a single drive with faster speeds? Is Synology hardware better than WDs?
How secure is Synology's implementation? I've always been hesitant to open up my home network to the outside world in any way, shape or form for that reason.
Got a decommissioned Dell R310 from a buddy. After a bunch of weirdness turned it in to a FreeNAS. I only had four 1tb drives for it so did it as a 3tb Z1. When I replace the drives eventually I'll do it as a Z2. Everything is currently backed up on an external drive anyway. Nice to have the convenience of my files and Plex.
just make sure those drives are in JBOD mode, and not using a RAID controller.
Just picked up some WD Reds after my Samsung desktop HDDs just died in my 2-bay Synology. Lasted a good 6 years, as others were noting for the same drive. Should have gone with RAID-1 instead of 0 from the get-go since one of the drives failed and I have no idea if the data I was able to salvage was on the one drive or just corrupt.
Please don't tell me you were running a RAID0 without a backup.
Could you run (h)top or some other perfomance monitor on it while it's peaking out?
That's a tight memory budget for a news loader to work on, especially if it's also repairing an archive.
I were running RAID0 without a backup. This was my media NAS, which I haven't kept up to date now since everything's available online. Nothing critical was on it fortunately. I use multiple USB HDDs for various other backups.
I discussed recently with someone working with a lot of NAS. He was wondering why, when you ran RAID1, you often had both discs dying at the same time...Please don't tell me you were running a RAID0 without a backup.
I'll throw one, that I discovered recently (and wish I knew for longer):
SSHFS IS GREAT
More stable? I don't remember having stability issues with sshfs.What do you use it for/when? Why not NFS/CIFS/Samba? Much more stable from what I can tell after some cursory googling.
What do you use it for/when? Why not NFS/CIFS/Samba? Much more stable from what I can tell after some cursory googling.
Hey guys,
Not sure if anyone can help me here, but I've given up on Synology's support and forums.
Here's the issue, I have DS1513+ with two 4TB (WD red). I have got a new 3TB (WD red) and added it in the third bay. I tried following the instructions but the "Manage" button under the Volume section is greyed out, and I really don't know what to do
Anyone knows what could be the problem?
Screens
Does an already-created SHR volume accept drives of smaller capacity?
Suppose your SHR volume is built on 1TB drives. To replace the old drives or add new ones, you will have to use drives equal or greater than 1TB. A smaller drive (e.g., 500GB) cannot be added to the existing SHR (or Classic RAID) volume. Even if this smaller drive is added, the storage of the smaller drive still cannot be used within the volume.
You can't go smaller. You can only go equal or bigger.
Ouch. Is there any way I can utalise it?
You could use it a separate storage pool, but you won't be able to add it to your main storage.
-Does anyone here have the TS-451 and how do you like it?
-Can anyone recommend an alternative that has 4(or more) bays and the unit itself is in the $400-500 price range?
I'm looking to upgrade my network storage. I'm currently running an older computer circa 2007-ish that has Windows 7 and about 3.5TB with folders shared to network accounts, but it is full and the network card is a pos. I use it for storing 1080p footage, but we just got a new camera that records in 4k, so file sizes are only going to get larger. I'd like to invest in a dedicated NAS system that is about 3+ years future proof. I have a few things that I know I need such as 10+ TB, Gigabit connection(link aggregation if possible), 4 bays
-Can anyone recommend an alternative that has 4(or more) bays and the unit itself is in the $400-500 price range?
Still hoping for info on how to safely add more storage/drives to a RAID5 setup--but in my search, I found a thread about why RAID5 is horrible: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/356486-why-is-raid5-so-bad
Thoughts, gaffers? Is RAID5 a horrible decision? I chose it because it sounded safe (on paper) and gave me the most storage/price out of any other setups.
As said in the post above, I got a TS-251+ and so far, I am loving it. It's a massive upgrade from the WD MyCloud I had. Fast at transferring files, great transcoding with Plex (and qVideo), downloading torrents...not regretting my purchase so far.
Why not get the TS-451+? (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015VNLGF8/?tag=neogaf0e-20) It's basically the one I've got, except yours will have 4-bays instead of 2. And it is within your price range.
If you want to read more about it: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/model.php?II=196
I got a Synology 916+ myself, the 8gb ram version. Might be just a bit above your stated budget tho, but it seems to fir your requirements. I've been really happy with it so far, but I mostly use it as a Plex Media Server and personal 'cloud' storage.
If you intend on using PMS for transcoding, then go with a DIY NUC solution.
Otherwise any Synology should do nicely.