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    I'm looking to purchase an off-the-shelf NAS, will be using it for streaming media to my T.V. A single drive unit that supports the lowest running wattage would be good and maybe the ability of downloads as well, ~$200?

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    Bump ...49 views and not 1 answers?

    I will be purchasing the Synology DS115j
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    I bought a used QNAP TS209 Pro on eBay several years ago and it works well for me. It accommodates two 3.25 inch hard drives.

    The person I bought it from had upgraded to a D-Link DNS320 Share Centre.

    The unit you have mentioned seems to have favorable reviews and will probably serve you well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timelord View Post
    HI

    I'm looking to purchase an off-the-shelf NAS, will be using it for streaming media to my T.V. A single drive unit that supports the lowest running wattage would be good and maybe the ability of downloads as well, ~$200?

    thanks
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    RPi NAS - cost of the Pi and hard drive ...
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    Freenas , been using it for ages , build your own box for under $200 , operating system $0 , dont have to be a brain surgent to configure.

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    Open Media Vault gets my vote

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guiseppe View Post
    RPi NAS - cost of the Pi and hard drive ...
    Personally never had that much luck with a RPi being used as a NAS... Not sure what the Pi3 is like, but using a 1 or 2 Pi was fine with a single drive to one device - anymore users or drives and the performance dropped significantly! It was due to the USB being a bottle neck.

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    I use Open Media Vault with my RPI3. cracking bit of software and FREE!

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    Get a bunch of $$ in your stocking this Christmas??

    Go for the Drobo (I have an older model which I love -- unsure of the newer equivalent units) -

    I've used all kinds of NAS units and SAN units in the past (+ MANY Dell Perc RAID controllers in servers with many types of RAID configurations).
    Honestly, the Drobo was the easiest to install / configure / use / etc... AND -- I HAVE HAD THE BEST "RECOVERY" INCIDENTS OCCUR WITH DROBO. !!
    (Even though they allow drives of different sizes / speeds / mfg's / etc... I still try to stick with the same size and mfg in any of the Drobo units I own or have installed)

    With the massive sizes of HDDs nowadays, a failure of a RAID element in a large array could very well lead to other issues during a replace/rebuild procedure.
    During RAID array rebuilding time, all of the drives are heavily taxed and under extreme use -- especially if the array is being accessed at the same time.
    Many times, I've had larger systems experience a single drive failure and after replacing and attempting to rebuild the array, another drive or more will
    experience a failure, leading to a massive problem to handle.

    The Drobo unit I have installed at the house has their own proprietary RAID system // By using the "Dual Redundancy" when configuring the unit, it
    slightly reduces capacity, but dedicated a second drive for parity and permits multiple drive failures during a rebuild process. I have had several
    instances where I had a bad lot of Seagate 1.5tb drives fail and the Drobo units handled everything so well and so fast that I was skeptical about the
    data integrity after the rebuild process had completed. It worked flawlessly each time I experienced an issue. !



    I have the Drobo-Pro/FS (8x 3.5" drive bays / rack mount / redundant ethernet interfaces / redundant AC power supplies)
    I have a large natural gas fueled 20kv standby generator for the house & a second one for the "Telecom Room" (a dozen or so servers / RF gear & 4 UHF Quantar repeaters / etc...)
    BUT... due to the "lag time" in getting the genset started / coming up to speed / ATS transferring the sub-panel load over to the generator, AND the possibility that the either generator
    fails to start... I also have a dedicated UPS for the entire room (a massive older "BEST Ferrrups" online UPS unit) that can easily handle the total load of the gear in the room.
    (240vac / single-phase / 12kva)

    As I am ultra OCD about my data & media, regardless of the amount of off-site backups and everything else used for data protection, I STILL have a second UPS unit
    dedicated just for the Drobo unit & a rack of Juniper gear - I took an older "BEST" rackmount UPS (pure sine-wave and "online" style / 120vav - 4kv) that was approx
    10 year old and had a long dead battery bank in a rack mount enclosure that held a TON of 12vdc 7ah batteries wired in series - parallel for 48vdc x 28ah. I re-wired
    the UPS so that I could use an external bank of AGM deep-cycle batteries (4x 12v in series / individual 100amp fusible links as "jumpers" between each battery /
    & made up a rather long cable assembly using #4AWG THWN copper stranded cables & "anderson" type connectors to supply DC power to that one UPS.


    Sorry for the long post -- I tend to be really careful about data storage due to the type of data being stored. It's much better to spend a little extra up front
    than to try to rebuild and/or recover lost data. AND.. the "downtime" while waiting for all of this to be done.

    Even though I am NOT a "Mac Person", I still highly recommend the higher-tier models of DROBO NAS unit to store your data.

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    I used to have a Netgear NAS a few years ago before I upgraded. I now have several Synology NAS, I currently have an RS212, DS414, and a DS1815+.

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    Synology has quite a few apps for web and email hosting as well as IP camera recording/monitoring. Depending on the model you can use Docker for more third party apps.

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