What's a good 4 slot NAS, to be used in a RAID 5 block? The ones I found were the Qnap ts-431X2 or Synology DS418, with the Qnap having the advantage of a single 12cm fan and SFP+ 10gbe capability. But I hear it is much slower.
It is to be used for storing media primarily, the most resource intensive task for it would be seeding a few TB of torrents. I want RAID5 to make sure that if any of the HDDs die, I won't lose anything.
How is it much slower? Just raid 5 the drives and use iscsi. Bam you'll get fantastic sequential read performance
Parker Bennett
>games >porn what a waste
Landon Thomas
>video games why?
Nathaniel Sullivan
it's not my pic, but it's not entirely inaccurate either.
>How is it much slower?
ARM CPU. Takes 3-15 minutes to boot. But it is said that it can do 2-300mbyte reads once it is up, through SFP connection. The Synology only has normal 1gb ethernet ports (two of them). My concern is that I have 500mbit internet, so I couldn't download and read/copy files off the NAS at the same time on a single 1gbit ethernet connection.
Maybe I could have 1 port connect to router so it can download, and another directly to my PC for file transfers? But that doesn't work on Windows, I heard.
I get terrible performance over iSCSI to my Win machine. NAS r/w appears to be much faster after some benchmarks.
Jason Smith
>I want RAID5 to make sure that if any of the HDDs die, I won't lose anything.
You're talking about backup. RAID is not backup.
Thomas Turner
why store porn when you can watch online anytime?
Leo Sullivan
RAID5 means that I'm protected against 1 HDD failure in real time. Not roll-back-to-last-backup crap. Which is more efficient, faster, and less of a hassle. Naturally I still have backups too, but a NAS RAID5 box would help things out greatly.
online porn is shit quality and gets deleted any time. Porn stored on my computer is better quality and will be there any time I want. I have porn from 2002 I still fap to.
Brody Carter
friendly reminder that data hoarding is a mental disease
This. I keep 3 copies of all data. Each of those 3 copies uses Raid of some type. My main server uses ReFS and another server uses ZFS as the file system (s). So my data is safe as can be done barring my house burning.
Hunter Nguyen
No one has any experience with either Synology or QNAP in general?
Wyatt Wilson
May want to look at Zyzel. I've got a few of there 2 bay units and one 4 bay. The 4 bay unit supports R-5/6/10/0/1. Has 2 GB lan ports that also can be teamed or can be used for segments (Lan A or Lan B both can use it). Comes with full inbox support for FTP/Media Streaming/etc. Loads more but you get the idea.
Alexander Morgan
The only thing is that it says a max of 16TB volume support. This is kinda misleading, yes it's true that there is 16TB limit per Raid volume due to cluster size, however you can create multiple volumes on the unit. So 4 drives, each say 12TB, you create two Raid 1 arrays for total of 24TB space.
Easton Bennett
that sounds great, but I hear that it's just too slow and the bundled software is crap.
QNap and Synology can run transmission, which would be great because I have a couple hundred torrents loaded. I'm not sure how those would perform if I ran them on my computer with the storage drive being the NAS (wouldn't the data have to go through my computer, then the NAS, then the internet, all through a single gigabit link? Or is iscsi "transparent" in that way, so if I run utorrent on my computer and download a torrent to the NAS, would the data directly go to the NAS without first hitting my computer, creating network congestion?).
Elijah Johnson
what's a good dual drive dumb nas? just something to get a raid1 going and plug into a router or other pc to share on the network?
Mason Hernandez
>what's a good dual drive dumb nas? just something to get a raid1 going yeah surely there is a step between silverstone 2 drive plug n copy and these $400 intel boxes
Zachary Barnes
Offsite backup is the way to go. Got one at my parents house and one at my grandparents. I sync all my shit there once a week, bonus is that I have a machine in their network I can ssh tunnel into to vnc to their devices to solve most "issues" they call me about remotely.