AndrewEH1 Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) So, bascially I'm out to buy a NAS to be my main storage location (with back-ups!) in my flat. I thinking about a Synology one as they review pretty well and the OS looks pretty polished. Around the £500 mark I'm thinking. Does anyone on here run one? Any advice or recommentations? Any issues with the NAS working with both OSX and Windows at the same time? Edited February 5, 2014 by AndrewEH1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Reynolds Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Might be worth looking into getting a microserver and building your own? I've Brought this, which HP always seem to have cashabck on, you'd just have to sort out your own drives. http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-hp-proliant-g7-n54l-2-2ghz-microserver-ebuyer-704941-421 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewEH1 Posted February 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Might be worth looking into getting a microserver and building your own? I've Brought this, which HP always seem to have cashabck on, you'd just have to sort out your own drives. http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-hp-proliant-g7-n54l-2-2ghz-microserver-ebuyer-704941-421 I had a quick look at microserver but I just don't want to built it really, lazy perhaps. Built my own PC which was easy enough but with storage I just want to plug it in and have it up and running without worrying about installing an OS etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HippY Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nas-raid-2-way-sync-replication,review-32879.html This article should help you out, as personally I know nothing about NASs. Wow, my ultranerd effect get worn off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroMatt Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) That link doesn't really have any consumer level info. For non enterprise stuff it's generally best to look at either Synology or QNAP to be honest. Something like either a Synology DS214play or QNap TS-221 are pretty much ideal for what you want. Should be no issues with compatibility and there are plenty of resources online to help setup. Also when looking at prices remember that most don't come with drives included. So for example at ~£500 you could get a DS214play with 2 3TB WD Reds. Edited February 5, 2014 by ZeroMatt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewEH1 Posted February 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 That link doesn't really have any consumer level info. For non enterprise stuff it's generally best to look at either Synology or QNAP to be honest. Something like either a Synology DS214play or QNap TS-221 are pretty much ideal for what you want. Should be no issues with compatibility and there are plenty of resources online to help setup. Also when looking at prices remember that most don't come with drives included. So for example at ~£500 you could get a DS214play with 2 3TB WD Reds. The link kinda confirmed that what I was wanting to do was the right thing, I'm thinking I might be RAIDing it to so it explained all of that clearly. I just need to spend a day looking at all the specs. I'm wanting something with a bit of ram, or at least upgradeable in the future so I can run a few things from it, including Minecraft... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroMatt Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Ah that's much more home server territory. Consumer level NAS would only be alright as something like a DHCP, FTP, print or mail server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewEH1 Posted February 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Ah that's much more home server territory. Consumer level NAS would only be alright as something like a DHCP, FTP, print or mail server. It would really be a closed server that only I would be on rather than an open one with 10+ players on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aener Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 I run a USB HDD from a Raspberry Pi.It's not fast, and it's not flashy, but it's super cheap and uses next to no power It's probably not what you're after, but for simple file storage/access it does me just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 It would really be a closed server that only I would be on rather than an open one with 10+ players on.Doesn't matter. NAS stands for Network Assisted Storage, that's literally all they do, store things.If you want to process anything, like running a Minecraft server, you need a server with some grunt. Even a microserver might struggle IMO.These are £350 after cashback, add couple of 3tb hard drives (£80-100 at the moment) and you're set. It already comes with 8gb of RAM and a decent CPU so you won't need to consider upgrading for a very long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewEH1 Posted February 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Doesn't matter. NAS stands for Network Assisted Storage, that's literally all they do, store things. If you want to process anything, like running a Minecraft server, you need a server with some grunt. Even a microserver might struggle IMO.These are £350 after cashback, add couple of 3tb hard drives (£80-100 at the moment) and you're set. It already comes with 8gb of RAM and a decent CPU so you won't need to consider upgrading for a very long time. Trying to run Minecraft is just a bit of a sidebar really, it'll probably just be a bit of an experiment! As far as I am aware Synology runs with a Linux based OS and can run various apps so not just a hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Some can run torrent clients and weak web servers, but so could the first gen raspberry pi. My Minecraft server had 2gb of ram initially but kept running out with just me on it. I'd consider the Raspberry Pi and USB hard drives solution mentioned above. Bet that would work out pretty cheap. Tempted to look into it myself actually... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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