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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

I've been running a QNAP TS-435UeX and it checks all the boxes coming in with a mountain of hardware and capability for cheap. Dual 10 GB SFP+ ports, dual SSD slots for raided read write acceleration, user upgradeable memory. It does a lot of stuff and it's an appliance so all the building out and troubleshooting crap is done for you, you just do what you want to do and be productive. The onboard encryption engine can fill the bandwidth of those SFP+ ports even if they're bonded. 4 drive bays, but you can also add another 12 via a couple of different sized expansion boxes.

It's a 1U so the fans are kinda small, therefore it's a bit noisy. The desktop version should be alright though.