visioN Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 Hi all, I currently have a couple of QNAP TS-419P II (8TB RAID5) in use with replication which are pretty good. Another branch needs a NAS, probably max storage would be 1TB, but 2TB (RAID5) would be safer for the future just in case. Any suggestions? Willing to look at different makes as out of the 2 QNAPS, 1 has had a few problems and the firmware upgrades has been iffy to say the least! *edit* Budget - cheaper the better but still want a half decent and reliable NAS as this is the most important thing!
IT_Ninja Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 (edited) With removable slots or standard? I've got the Seagate Blackarmor and so far no problems, with it's 'government grade encryption' lol Edited June 19, 2014 by IT_Ninja 1
brewerd Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 check out the synology diskstation 2 drive NAS boxes, we use a few here for staff shared areas and the like and they are great little boxes with bags of configuration options. 1
sted Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 ignore the netgear readynas 104's it cant handle iscsi they just fall over after a day or so tried 2 and updates etc works fine as an smb dumb but use iscsi it just crashes 1
visioN Posted June 19, 2014 Author Posted June 19, 2014 I think I'd like to have the NAS RAID5 hot swap HDDs
PotNoodleTech Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 Synology NAS's are excellent, my current pick of the bunch at the lower end of the market.
visioN Posted June 19, 2014 Author Posted June 19, 2014 Synology RackStation RS812 - NAS server - 0 GB Synology RackStation RS812 - NAS server... | RS812 | £440.99 | Insight UK WD Green WD20EZRX - hard drive - 2 TB... | WD20EZRX | £54.99 | Insight UK £440 NAS £55 per disk x 4 £660 exVAT Looks not too bad
3s-gtech Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 My experience of NAS + RAID 5 is horrendous. Pretty much every time a disk failed, another would fail while rebuilding. I just make them all RAID 10 now, but it's expensive on storage. Synology devices would be my first recommendation, followed by Netgear ReadyNAS Pro. Great kit.
visioN Posted June 19, 2014 Author Posted June 19, 2014 Had a couple of disks on my current QNAP fail on RAID 5, however never any problems rebuilding!
visioN Posted June 19, 2014 Author Posted June 19, 2014 Synology RS812 seems to be out of date and the Synology RS814 looks to be its replacement but seems a lot more pricers. Anyone used the Buffalo Terastation 3400r? Looks decent?
PotNoodleTech Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 If you're worried about rebuild faliure in raid 5 with big drives, use smaller drives, and more of them, possibly change to raid 6 too. Something like a Synology DS1813+ with 8 x 1TB drives in raid 6 (one as Hotspare) would work quite niceley and can satturate a 1GB link when running backups etc. (ok, not rack mount... but...)
Gatt Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 I just use an old PC running CentOS 6.5 (minimal) with Samba shares and a few drives in it...
visioN Posted June 19, 2014 Author Posted June 19, 2014 RS814 doesn't seem that expensive actually. RS814+ could be doable too!
Sephiroth Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 Anyone used the Buffalo Terastation 3400r? Looks decent? Not that one in particular, but I have used Buffalo Terastations before, and can't recommend them. Absolute pain to configure and constantly giving errors, particularly after having to be restarted. That said, I don't know what the latest ones are like... 1
visioN Posted June 19, 2014 Author Posted June 19, 2014 (edited) Looks like I am going to go with the Synology RS814 with 4 x 1TB disks @ £570 exVAT due to everyone recommending Synology! Edited June 19, 2014 by visioN
mikeyd101 Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 make sure its secure just read this: Crooks use Synology NAS boxen to mine Dogecoin, yells Dell 1
visioN Posted June 25, 2014 Author Posted June 25, 2014 If I get this NAS it will be behind our firewall and not public facing so should be ok?
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