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Recommend me a decent but cheap NAS (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ideally one that can use more than one disk so that i can expand it later when i can. Have some minimal experience with Synology since there's one at work and i have interacted with it a couple times and like the interface, but am not married to any brand as long as it works.

Located in EU if it makes any difference.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My setup is a raspberry pi with a large external hard drive running smbd, and it works fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What model pi? How responsive do you find it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don't know about that guy but I use a RasPi 4 with a four bay laptop drive toaster. Four terabyte drives and it works great for streaming to multiple devices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's a base model 3, no gobs of memory. I don't use it for anything especially taxing, just file storage and occasionally streaming music or low-resolution video. The bottleneck is the slow WD Archive hard drive.