Trig0r Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 So, I'm off over to Atlanta at Christmas, and the bro in law is looking at upgrading stuff.. I've already pointed him at the Surface line rather than a Macbook Pro, suggested he keeps his iPhones rather than move to Android, and now he's finally looking at a proper place to dump his files.. Ideally, I want something that can survive a drive failure, will talk to his Sonos/iTunes library, has a tool for Windows/OSx for silent backups, does email alerts, file system that'll allow him to pull drives and plug them into a PC in the same way as Drivepool does, has the ability to cloud or ftp sync stuff so he can have an extra backup of certain folders/files to a cloud service or to my server here in the UK, file/folder duplication, again in the same way that Drivepool does, link with his OneDrive/Dropbox so pictures taken on phones will sync with the cloud and to his NAS, VPN so he can drop onto the NAS remotely. I'm kinda thinking I need to talk to him about his requirements again as I'm pretty much at the point where I'm thinking Microserver, however it has been about 4 years since I have properly looked at NAS devices so maybe there's something that'll do his needs.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowPeo Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 I know a Synology can do pretty much all that, pulling the drive and sticking it in a PC however, that's a no-go without some serious Linux interaction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Any idea how much capacity is needed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trig0r Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 4 hours ago, ShadowPeo said: I know a Synology can do pretty much all that, pulling the drive and sticking it in a PC however, that's a no-go without some serious Linux interaction yeah figured that would be the case, spoilt by the guys at Stablebit I guess 3 hours ago, schoondoggy said: Any idea how much capacity is needed? Not at the minute, still an ongoing conversation, I'd like him to have something in place ready for when I get there and then I can just set it up rather than still being in the position of needing to go out and buy the kit or wait for delivery etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowPeo Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Go a Synology, can always get an advance RMA, or worst case scenario they are easy to obtain another one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trig0r Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 Cheers, will start to look at options, I'd like a 3/4 bay but he's thinking 2 for cost reasons, I've already told him to think about how much space he needs and then double it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richu75 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 I just jumped on the synology boat (if you don’t count the old 211j I was gifted).Opted towards the 918+, it can later be expanded with a five bay extention unit (dx517). There is also a 2bay unit with extention possiblities, the 718+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Hard to go wrong with Synology or QNAP. This QNAP three bay is interesting for the money. RAID5 is a little scary. I would like to see rebuild times for 6TB vs 8TB vs 10TB,,,,, https://www.servethehome.com/qnap-ts-328-3-bay-low-cost-raid-5-capable-nas/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trig0r Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 I was looking at the 718, that 3 bay might be an interesting alternative, he's not bothered about Plex as he's got streaming services for media consumption and running VM's isn't on the cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowPeo Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 4 hours ago, schoondoggy said: Hard to go wrong with Synology or QNAP. This QNAP three bay is interesting for the money. RAID5 is a little scary. I would like to see rebuild times for 6TB vs 8TB vs 10TB,,,,, https://www.servethehome.com/qnap-ts-328-3-bay-low-cost-raid-5-capable-nas/ The issue with RAID 5 depending on the size of the disks is that there is a high chance of failure to rebuild due to a URE on an array once it is 12TB, this is a function of the number of sectors and utilises the data from the manufacturers as to the rates of UREs. Now I must state that I have not done the math to validate, nor have I done the math on more modern drives compared to when the article came out but you should get the idea https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-2019/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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