NAS Recommendations (and Expectations)

[Armageus]

the 8Tb drives in RAID1, I assume their config won't be affected?

Yep should be completely unaffected and independent

 

[RSR]

You realise there is a 3rd party list too right? Click the Synology dropdown and change it to 3rd party.

Yes, but there are no SSDs on that list which was my point.

 

[SonicSW20]

Yes, but there are no SSDs on that list which was my point.

You'd be mad to use consumer / desktop grade SSD's in a NAS for anything other than caching, I'm not surprised they're not on the list.

 

[RSR]

You'd be mad to use consumer / desktop grade SSD's in a NAS for anything other than caching, I'm not surprised they're not on the list.

WD Red(SA500) SSD's are fine to use in a NAS, they are on the QVL list of the QNAP I will probably move to later on.

On a side note, I have no issue with buying those drives, it's just for the total ownership cost as it would be 6 x ~£1000 + ~£1500 for the DS1621XS when I bought it. If I was spending that much, I'd rather get a much more powerful unit that supports NVMe drives etc.. as I personally wouldn't class the DS1621XS as any more than an advanced NAS for home.

 

[SonicSW20]

WD Red(SA500) SSD's are fine to use in a NAS, they are on the QVL list of the QNAP I will probably move to later on.

Yes, those are designed for the application. 870 Evo's are not.

 

[RSR]

Yes, those are designed for the application. 870 Evo's are not.

Those SA500's do work pretty well, as they get hammered a lot of the timing testing stuff. I don't have any issues to report using them since moving over to them last year.

 

[ChrisD.]

I’ve got 4 of them, 4TB of each and no issues to report.

 

[Sin_Chase]

I've been running a DS218 for a few years now.

I use it as a local backup target and also replicate to a Backblaze instance for off site storage. Backblaze costs me less than £2 a month (350GB at the moment) and is worthwhile peace of mind.

The integrated Synology cloud sync supports quite a few Clpud providers but I found Backblaze B2 offered the best value for money for archive storage.

 

[ChrisD.]

Backblaze B2 is a great service.

 

[Sin_Chase]

Although B2 just went up to $5 per 1TB they just removed egress fees for up to 3x the stored amount. Which is nice if I ever need to bring a backup down.

 

[Minstadave]

Although B2 just went up to $5 per 1TB they just removed egress fees for up to 3x the stored amount. Which is nice if I ever need to bring a backup down.

£40 a year gets you 6x1TB Onedrive accounts and that integrates nicely with Synology.

 

[Sin_Chase]

£40 a year gets you 6x1TB Onedrive accounts and that integrates nicely with Synology.

I prefer B2 for my use case as its pay as you use rather than paying for storage I don't necessarily need. At the moment it costs me £1.69 a month and only increases as my replication size increases.

I rarely, if ever, egress as its just archive storage for me. If I need to access data whilst on the move I just VPN.

 

[Sin_Chase]

Duplicate post, ignore!

 

[doodah]

£40 a year gets you 6x1TB Onedrive accounts and that integrates nicely with Synology.

How do you get it for £40, I'm seeing $100 pa.

 

[Minstadave]

How do you get it for £40, I'm seeing $100 pa.

There's usually a deal on atleast a few times a year for a years subscription for £40-£45.

 

[ChrisD.]

There's usually a deal on atleast a few times a year for a years subscription for £40-£45.

Exactly this, and you can top up as well when offers are run.

 

[rangor gubbins]

Thank you for the responses. @Armageus, that sounds ideal to me.

I was hoping to get something in for around £600 with drives. Are there any recommendations for which to go?

I use a ds720 which I think would be ideal for what you want. You might be able to pick one up second hand to save you some money.
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