[PLUG] NAS System suggestions

David Gibbons david at dgibbons.net
Wed Jun 22 15:40:46 UTC 2016


I've been very happy with my Synology, replaced a home built Freenas and
lost none of the features/functionality I was using in freenas. Less
management overhead, lower power usage. A+++ Would buy again.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:03 AM, russ at dimstar.net <russ at dimstar.net> wrote:

> Synology  runs Linux under the hood. Im running several of them at several
> different clients.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 21, 2016, at 9:04 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > I need a NAS system which includes a two-bay enclosure capable of
> > holding two 6TB drives, and I want to start out with just one 6TB
> > drive. From my research so far I have determined that Western
> > Digital red drives are the best for this application, so the WD
> > WD60EFRX drive is at the top of my list. Suggestions for alternatives
> > are welcome.
> >
> > The enclosure, however, is a point of major confusion. It's amazing how
> > little actual information manufacturers web site give you. I'm sick of
> > reading how many photos of my loved ones I can place on the device.
> >
> > Since I'm leaning toward the WD drive above, WD enclosures would be
> > my first choice. Western Digital sells enclosures, but as far as I can
> > tell they only sell them as a unit with drives, i.e., if I buy a two-bay
> > enclosure it will come with two drives.
> >
> > My major confusions about the enclosures are about all the various
> > software features that they come with. My house is wired with Cat6
> > ethernet, but all my computers are Linux only. None of the web sites
> > tell me much about the software on the enclosure. But maybe I just need
> > to plan to nuke the software the enclosure comes with and replace it
> > with open source bits.
> >
> > I need some education.
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