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

submitted 1 year ago by jherazob@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[–] sanzky@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

the old PC thing is a clear first choice. Also a WD NAS, preloaded with Hard drives have a very good prince point if you also need the HDDs e.g. The WD My Cloud EX2 with 2x6TB HD is currently 422€ (amazon spain) and each individual 6TB WD red is 200€. (leaving the NAS at 20€). If you get the 24TB version is even cheaper than the two HD combined.

[–] kobra@readit.buzz 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would hesitate with WD. I’ve always been a fan of their drives but their software straight up wiped people’s backup disks a few years ago, iirc. That would give me pause before ever using their software again.

[–] qazwsxedcrfv000@lemmy.unknownsys.com 1 points 1 year ago

Well you are not required to use any software from Western Digital with its disks. SATA is an industry standard.

[–] SolarSailer@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with the hesitancy on WD. They're also starting to automatically flag NAS drives older than 3 years with a warning flag. Plus when they shipped out SMR drives as Red drives a few years back... https://youtu.be/cLGi8sPLkLY