[ale] NAS recommendations

[Edward O. Holcroft]

I use FreeNAS at home and it's been running smoothly for, I dunno, a couple
of years now. All upgrades have been uneventful.

I built it on a desktop box. It boots from USB and uses FreeNAS software
RAID5 using four consumer grade SATA drives.

I store all my photos, music and video on it. I use the built in version of
Plex (not that great in the sense that it's not really fully open) for
video/audio streaming and image viewing. But for image browsing I mostly
just access via a Samba share on FreeNAS.

I have a bunch of Synology devices at work. They're pretty decent and seem
fairly quick with security patches. but they have one fundamentally
irritating shortfall for my work needs: lack of full disk encryption. I
tried building my own Synology box at home but gave up. FreeNAS was just
easier to get going. Synology is kinda "proprietaryt-ish" in that sense.
It's really aimed at their hardware, so is tough to get working on a
standard piece of consumer equipment.

hth

ed




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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Ken Cochran <kwc at shell.theworld.com> wrote:

> Any ALEr Words of Wisdom wrt desktop NAS?
> Looking for something appropriate for, but not limited to, photography.
> Some years ago Drobo demoed at (I think) AUUG.  (Might've been ALE.)
> Was kinda nifty for the time but I'm sure things have improved since.
> Synology?  QNAP?
> Build something myself?  JBOD?
> Looks like they all running Linux inside these days.
> Rackmount ones look lots more expensive.
> Ideas?  What to look for?  Stay away from?  Thanks, Ken
>
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