Hdd NAS for home

What do you use?
Synology ? TrueNAS? ubiquity?

I have a Synology. A bit funny to set up, but it's working for me with a 16TB WD drive.

which model do you have? how many drives? speed? 10GB ethernet? (lol...)

Walter, are you wanting it for editing, or just media playback & Plex/Jellyfin? So many options depending on budget & how complex of a setup you want to dive into.


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I have a QNAP. TS-h973AX with 5 x 8T drives 10G switch connects all computers. Works great for me.

Mostly to park project at the end and be able to work a bit out of it even at slower speed.

I have 8x18tb 7200rpm drives that I can use for it, ideally with 10gb ports (or multiple aggregate)

Mostly to park project at the end and be able to work a bit out of it even at slower speed.

I have 8x18tb 7200rpm drives that I can use for it, ideally with 10gb ports (or multiple aggregate)

IMHO, if you’re not looking at sharing the projects on your network, I’d look into a DAS with a TB4 connection. Also, with the DAS, if you want to share it with other computers in your LAN later on, you can use software to handle that. I like using Syncthing for it. This setup will cost you the least over a NAS.

But if you want NAS, with the 8 drives you have, you’ll probably need a rack based solution, something like this at the very least. I don’t know of a desktop NAS enclosure that takes 8 or more drives but I haven’t looked for it much lately.

https://www.newegg.com/synology-rs1221/ ... 6822108757

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I have a Synology 5 bay; 14TB drives for backup.

which model do you have? how many drives? speed? 10GB ethernet? (lol...)

Synology DS124. It is single drive. Ethernet is 1GB/s. I don't need any faster. My whole network is 1GB/s.
It is used only for backup/archiving and to have a shared drive with the rest of the PC in the house.

On my pc I cannot use thunderbolt...

Depending on your motherboard (if it has a TB header) you can get a pcie thunderbolt add-on card, then a Caldigit Element hub if you need more ports.


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Depending on your motherboard (if it has a TB header) you can get a pcie thunderbolt add-on card, then a Caldigit Element hub if you need more ports.


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I use the Caldigit Element and it’s great.

@Walter, you can get the DAS with USB 3.2 Gen 2 and that connects like 10gb/s if you have that port on your PC. For archival or parking projects, that’s sufficient and cost a lot less than a NAS or a TB DAS. Just giving you some options. Just make sure your DAS connects usb 3.2 gen 2 to your PC.