Hoping to set up a general location to throw files.

It might be used as a storage dump for Plex too…

Recommendations?

Edit: the synology recommendations have won out. Went with the DS923+. Thanks for all of the thoughtful recommendations!

  • Obsession@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    If you want the best UX and polish, Synology

    If you want something rougher around the edges, QNAP

    You can always look into building a solution with something like unraid, truenas, or OMV

    • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      If choosing Synology look into the Plus series (f.e. DS723+) or you end up with ARM CPUs and lose many of Synologys software goodies.
      Their Active Backup for Business software is a nice way to backup the household machines as an example.
      As you enter packages in this list you will see which models are supported:
      https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/packages

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Seconding this because my current NAS is dying and I’d like to relocate my LEGITIMATELY OBTAINED MEDIA COLLECTION somewhere else.

    Plex seems cool but last time I tried it I couldn’t get it to categorize my non-english movies and shows correctly.

  • thelastknowngod@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    I always rolled my own Debian servers on microitx boards. I found a cheap synology a few years ago though and gave it a shot… I’m a convert for sure. They fully live up to the hype and are absolutely worth the price.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I have two NAS Solutions, both using raspberry pis running OMV. First one is a single external USB hard drive acting as a buffer when it downloads my legitimately obtained media before transferring its data to the second NAS running two USB hard drives running RAID 1 for deep storage and streaming.

    • kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Minor nit here - “docker containers” or just “containers” because “dockers” are pants.

      • istoff@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        3rd world idiot here. Docker pants like in clothes, was in a mall when I read your comment earlier and I spent a fair bit of time thinking up a response to your comment, but the joke’s on me. Just installed requestrr in a minute from the gui in unraid. For some of us, this is awesome. I used to run a Fedora 14 samba server for many years, slowly working my way up to 17 or 18 until my initial partition (bad) choices made me look for something else. Can’t remember how long it is now, but my same Unraid server has been running for ever. Drives growing, motherboard changing, ram & cpu upgrading along the way. Yes, it costs 70 dollars or something up front, but in time and energy saved for me, it has been an amazing ride.

        • kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Containers are such a game changer for how I manage my apps and their dependencies. Love how I can try things out in a container, nuke it and start over, knowing I have a clean environment. I hate installing anything on my native host OS install these days if I can help it.

          • istoff@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            Yep. Crazy how quick they install and reboot. In the case of the RR apps with the way they communicate over a shared file system is powerful.

  • metaStatic@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    I could actually recommend the synology DS220J. super simple, cheap, can run your plex server on it so it’s not tied to your main pc.

    You’ll outgrow it quickly but you’ll know exactly what you want in your next nas or if you want to build one instead.

  • Cam@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Never setup a nas but if I was to get one, I would use truenas since it is foss.

    For fireproof and waterproof nas systems, check out iosafe. Not sure if truenas will work on them however.

    https://iosafe.com/

      • Cam@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yes, it is the OS of the nas. I do not know what hardware will work for it. I only played around with truenas in a VM

    • exscape@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Plenty of FOSS ways to set up a NAS. I’m going for Debian with ZFS myself, I prefer custom solutions as they are almost always more flexible than “NAS OS:es”.

      • Cam@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        What software do you need when using debian? Just ZFS as a file system?

        • exscape@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          It depends on what your goals are of course, but I use ZFS for the file system, sanoid to take snapshots on a schedule (hourly saved for a few days, daily saved for 1-2 weeks and so on up to monthly saved a year or two), Samba to actually share the files to Windows computers, Plex to share media to my TV.
          Also rsync to a second (offsite) computer for replication/backups of the most important stuff. That computer also takes ZFS snapshots to get easy versioning of the files.

          I wouldn’t recommend it for most people, but it’s nice if you’re comfortable working with Linux to begin with.

          • Cam@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            Is there good FOSS software that you can run on debian or ubuntu that can allow you to access your files using SFTP while the files are being stored with a RAID system? And is it possible to have your files store older versions of the file when you overwrite them and keep these older versions of the file for X months?

            • exscape@kbin.social
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              Yes, that shouldn’t be an issue. I believe SFTP would be supported basically out-of-the-box if you install OpenSSH during the install, but you might want to create a group and configure access if you’re not the only user.

              The version thing is what I’m doing with ZFS (also works with BtrFS, but it doesn’t feel as reliable yet). Basically I take snapshots every hour, and the entire state of the filesystem at that point becomes frozen in time, and can be accessed as long as the snapshots exists.
              sanoid automates the process and cleans up so that there’s a reasonable amount of snapshots, not hundreds or thousands.
              Of course, this means that you can’t really regain any space when you delete things, until the oldest snapshot containing the data is deleted.