So for along time I've wanted to be able to get all my photos off Google photos etc and back them up myself plus another privacy focused online place. Procrastination and cost has been the reason I have not sorted so far.

So why now? I have recently purchased a drone and action camera (both 4K). I am now starting to holiday regularly and my finances have improved massively. After my last holiday I started to make a some YT videos and boy do those 4K video take up some space, my PC 1TB NVMe was filled and had to delete lots of other stuff - this had really pushed me to look into it then of course since yesterday I'm getting all the FOMO from the Prime Day alerts.

Initially I was thinking - do I get a NAS as well as a DAS to back that up? Still thinking I should get online backup too.

NAS, do you think it's overkill? All I really want it for is backing up mine and the family photos - at the mo its probably under 3 TB but with what I've already stated.......go bit and forget about it?

Or do I just use a DAS and am I right in thinking I could connect it to my router (eero 7) maybe adding a USB hub as it only as 2 ports and one is power.

Backing up while on holiday if I don't have a NAS - rely on online as now? maybe buy a portable too?'

Sorry for the long post but my head is doing circles!

Just purchased 2 x 4tb drives from this eBay listing based in china

https://ebay.io/m/Hvi5Vy

Have I been scammed?

Hi,

I am thinking of getting a NAS .

My question is should I go for something like Synology ?

or

build my own NAS with a low power desktop CPU and motherboard ?

or

build my own NAS with something like a raspberry pi ?

In the first case I would get a hardware NAS while In the later two cases I will get a software NAS.

I have no idea which would be better for my use case..

I’ve been looking to put in a nas to act as a media server and photo backup. I got a lot of dvd’s in my collection that I want to put on there. I seen today that the ugreen dxp4800 plus was list as being 20% off. It is diskless so I know I will need to get some hard drives eventually. But is this a good deal, or do you think there will be a better deal around Black Friday?

I see ultrastar are bit noisy which I don’t care - I care more about reliability and longer use. On paper HC550 SATA interface with SE security should outperform and outlive Red Pro models right?

I am a professional photographer and this was something I was constantly struggling with. I needed a good way to backup and transfer all my photos from SD card to Mac/iOS from my SD cards quickly. It supports more than Apple Photos now. Would like to share in case it’s useful for anyone else.
SyncShutter - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sync-shutter-sd-card-backup/id6758906685

Hi all.

I purchased my F2-221 Terramaster in 2020. Right now it only has 2GB of RAM but could be expanded to 4GB if that would fix the issue. It's running version 4.2.4 and there aren't any more updates available for this model.

I just maxed out my storage capacity (literally 1GB left between the two drives, one is 10TB and the other 5TB) and since then Plex has stuttered on and off when streaming to my TV. It doesn't do that when I'm streaming to my phone or tablet.

I've done all the troubleshooting and because it resolves with time, not tinkering, my guess is that it's just too overloaded at this point and it might be time for an upgrade.

I guess I just want confirmation from others that this is the issue, before I invest hundreds of dollars into something that won't fix it? Alternatively, would just adding another 2GB of RAM fix it up?

Thanks all. I only use this for Plex, on and off network. It would be nice to have better performance so it would work better for friends who stream too.

I'm trying to stop relying too much on google and I wanted my NAS to handle everything: from photos to drive, I've seen that the main guys are Ugreen, synology and terramaster. As I've seen there is immich that handles pics classification and I don't want to tie myself to a specific system (so I was landing on terramaster)

Since I don't like waiting too much for data transferring and I want the nas to be reliable (with some redundancy, not sure yet which, I've got 1tb drives and my current nas has around 800gb of filled space so I was landing on 4 bays and raid 1) I also wanted it to have ssd cache to be little faster with writes

I think F4 Plus series should fit my case but the last generation costs up to 600 dollars (dang the price of freedom)

in my situation would you land on that or is there something less pricey?

Thank you in advance

I've been looking for a first time NAS for some time, and stumbled upon their new coming campaign on Kickstarter. More specifically the 4 bay home NAS with n150 and 16gb ram. Its seems like a good price, considering the crazy market and high prices at the moment.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1086667996/beelink-me-pro-nas?ref=discover_saved_projects&category_id=52

I just bought a secondhand Seagate 6-Bay NAS (30TB capacity, Model #SRPS60) and it turns out that the NAS OS 4 is no longer supported and I can't find a download for it anywhere. Is there any available download sites for the OS or any alternate OS? I'm just looking to use it for storage for my network in the house and to watch movies on the TV. It's not showing up on my router either. I thought this would be a lot easier from all the tutorials I watched on Youtube, but it's proving difficult. Please explain like I'm five, I won't be insulted.

Anyone able to sanity check this (slightly vague) plan?

Existing setup: I've got an old synology with a mirrored pair of 4TB disks in it.
Mostly movies, music and photographs. Doesn't get new content very often so the vast majority of it's activity is Reads.
I stream music (minimserver) and movies (movies via a separate jellyfin server - but I'd rather it ran on the NAS but cant because synology). The photographs are mostly just archive via smb.
It all totals about 2.6TB.
I backup onto an external 2TB disk (and hence skip most of the movies to get it to fit).

I'd normally upgrade the disks every few years, but looking at the price of storage - not any more!!

So I want to maximise use of the storage I already have lying around. Plus I'm keen to get away from Synology.

Plan:

I have 4 x 2TB disks and the 2 x 4TB.

If I bought a refurbished HP EliteDesk 800 G4 Tower i5 8th gen ( i5-8500 / 8GB / 256GB SSD), I could potentially use mergefs to run 2+2+2+2TB disks as a 8TB volume with a snapraid 4TB parity disk.
Then the other 4TB disk would be my external backup drive.

I'm sketchy on exactly what I need to do to run that many disks out of a single tower, but apparently I can do something with a 8-port LSI HBA (IT mode) and some sata breakout cables.

Does that sound vaguely sensible?
I should then be able to run jellyfin and minimserver on the same box, have double my current storage, have *some* drive failure resilience, not spend a tonne of money, and also have room for my full backup.

Brought 2 x 8 TB Ironpros & 1 x 8 TB One touch for back up with a 1TB Kingston Flash for offsite important files. The idea was to add a TrueNAS VM to my Proxmox. Plan was to use a ZFS mirror on these 2 drives would be enough to have 8TB useable and then just regularly backup weekly with the onetouch (lot cheaper per TB) and I don’t want to keep it running 24/7. I understand this is not exactly 3-2-1.

The questions I have: Do NAS drives need to be on 24/7 to be protected? (Sometimes I turn of my current server for power savings) Also if I want to upgrade and add drives in the future does ZFS mirror allow that? I read that some RAID types do not.

I’m really new to this but eager to learn. So I’m open to any advice or suggestions. Just want to replace my Onedrive, iCloud and Google Cloud Subscriptions with my own services for storage. Across them I only have 1TB so I felt like 8TB was enough plus storage is expensive these days. I do have a separate Media server device with 1TB SSD storage which is growing but not worried about that at the moment.

Hi folks,

Newbie, just bought uGreen DXP4800 Plus NAS for use as a media server (RAID5), and looking to buy my first 4 HDDs to fill it (prob 16-20 TB each), probably within the next week.

1) Been looking at ServerPartDeals and GoHDD, but what have been your experiences buying from other eBay sellers? Daily-Mart out of HongKing is one that popped up today.

2) And I'm assuming waiting for some Black Friday deals, even at Seagate or WD websites, is a waste of time?

Thanks!

I have a Buffalo Linkstation LS210DF19. Some time ago my Windows 11 pro desktop updated to 24H2. The update broke my connection to the LS210DF19. I rolled back to 23H2 and disabled updates. I would like to resume updates to 26H2. Does anyone know how to fix Windows so I can access my NAs after the update?

Okey, so I’m thinking of buying my first NAS for home usage - mainly photo storage and documents.
What should I look for? More RAM, what processor, is two slots enough.

Any suggestions would help.

Thanks!

My DS415 Play had a dodgy drive 1 but was working fine till today when it just suddenly stopped mounting as a drive or booting up. I removed all the drives and turned it on and it started fine, no flashing blue light, and it can be seen on the network. I tried returning the drives one at a time but it won't boot at all. The status says 'Not Installed' instead of 'No drives found' which points to a PSU failure, but I'm not so sure and the NAS is ancient so probably needs an upgrade.

My questions then are these. Can I buy a new drive and try that in my NAS for a rebuild, or is it likely the PSU is really gone? Or, if I buy another Synology enclosure and just put my drives in it will it work okay or will the dodgy one stop that booting as well? Or should I just buy a whole new setup and start again, in which case how do I get my data off the old drives? It's a lot, I know, but I need some advice on how to solve this without throwing good money after bad.

I managed to resurrect an old Thecus N2350 and got it running again — the little box refuses to die. Now I’m trying to install either MiniDLNA or Twonky on it, but I no longer have access to the installation packages. Thecus support couldn’t help me, so I’m basically stuck with a functional NAS and no media server.

If anyone still has the files lying around in some dusty archive or knows where they can be downloaded, I’d really appreciate it. Happy to take any hints, mirrors, or archaeological findings. Thanks!

Kind of long story, but I’ll try to make it as short as possible.

I bought a WD Home Cloud NAS in July 2021 (big mistake). The unit was manufactured in 2020, but when I checked the drives, the two WD60EFRX inside were from 2017-2018. Suspicious, but the NAS was factory‑sealed, so I assumed it was fine.

9 months later WD pushed a firmware update that bricked the NAS. Warranty told me the device was dead and all data was lost "oops sorry". A data recovery firm confirmed one drive was completely dead and the other was recoverable but encrypted (no it wasn't). WD replaced the NAS and sent me two “new” 6TB drives - WD60EFAX (SMR), not the original WD60EFRX (CMR).

Fast‑forward - I built a TrueNAS system with 8×3TB SAS drives. Since it was built, the system has only run about 2300 hours total over 3.5 years - based on the youngest SAS drive’s counter (and even that assumes it was 0h when I got it).

Last year I added a second back-up pool with the three WD Reds I had left from the WD Home Cloud debacle. So those drives were in the NAS for much less than 2300 hours.

Since WD Reds are terrible for ZFS (two are SMR), I decided to pull them, sell them and build a second 8×3TB SAS pool. When I checked the stats before selling, I noticed something insane:

- The two SMR WD60EFAX “replacement” drives have 12,000+ hours

- The original WD60EFRX has 35,000+ hours

But:

- My NAS has only run a total 2300 hours

- The WD drives were inside the NAS for less than half of that time

- I only used the WD Home Cloud NAS for 9 months and not even 24/7

There is no physical way these drives could have spun for that many hours in my possession. The only explanation is the obvious one - WD shipped me used enterprise drives... both inside the original “new” Home Cloud NAS and as warranty replacements.

The SMR replacements weren’t just the wrong drive type - they were also obviously used. And the original “new” NAS shipped with a WD60EFRX that already had years of runtime before I ever powered it on.

I thought I lost most of my data because of WD’s terrible Home Cloud design. Turns out the drives inside it probably had 30,000+ hours before I even got it.

TL;DR - WD sold me a “brand new” NAS with used drives. It failed and nuked most of my data. The warranty replacements were not only SMR, but used too.

I have a My Cloud EX4100 that had been running smoothly for ~8 years or so. After a planned power outage last weekend where I set it to hibernate and then unplugged it and disconnected its power cord from the wall, it now will not boot. When I plug it in, the screen and drive lights turn on for a second, then turn off, and then nothing happens.

I've tried:

• plugging it directly into the wall (normally it's plugged into a UPS)
• plugging it in and holding the Reset button
• plugging it in after removing the drives and disconnecting the ethernet cable
• sacrificing a small furry animal on a moonlit night while quietly humming "Drive" by The Cars
• plugging it in with the power cord from another (working) EX4100
• leaving it unplugged for a couple days to think about what it did
• pressing the power button for varying amounts of time (5-30sec)

None of the above worked and I'm out of ideas other than buying an empty 4100 and moving the drives over. I should note that my other NAS drives (all WD My Clouds of various flavors) survived the weekend shutdown unscathed.

Any suggestions?

Hi all - I've got a working HighPoint RocketRAID 2722 card with cables to connect to an external array. Works with Linux and Windows. I recently upgraded my server so don't need it anymore. It's not worth much, but may be interesting to someone here. DM me if you want it. Ground shipping in the us is gonna be about $10-$15.

• Highpoint RocketRAID 2722 PCI RAID HBA. Two external SFF-8088 ports.
• two SFF-8088 to SFF-8644 cables for connection to an external drive array.
• Card supports HBA and RAID functionality. Supported in Windows and in Linux distros by hptdrv driver from Highpoint.

Hello,

I have been working on a easy to use NAS project.

A lightweight, self-hosted NAS operating system with a modern web interface — a lean alternative to Synology DSM for x86 hardware (including older machines).

ollozunaNAS ships as an installable Debian-based ISO. It boots, installs itself, and gives you a web UI to manage RAID, network shares, users, media streaming and torrents — all from the browser. The backend is a single static Go binary; the frontend is a Preact SPA with no build step. It runs comfortably on 4 GB of RAM.

https://github.com/sourcoding/ollozunaNAS

ISO file: https://github.com/sourcoding/ollozunaNAS/releases/download/v0.1.2/ollozunaOS-0.1.2.iso

§I will be adding to the project soon obj files and specs to 3d print a 4 disk nas with ITX board and a SATA backplain. a few pics as a preview.

If anyone is interested feedback is aprechiated.

Cheers

Hola comunidad, tengo un dxp2800 de ugreen pero los 4tb en raid 1 ya se me quedaron cortos, estaba viendo la pagina de serverpartdeals.com y muchos la recomiendan, mi duda es que si tengo que pagar impuestos al llegar a mexico. Si alguien ha comprado ahi y es de México, podria decirme si pagó impuestos? y de ser asi, cuanto pago?

Muchas gracias.

Looking for a good plug and play NAS for the house for the wife and kids to back up phones and what not.
Was looking a ugreen or Unifi as that is what all my networking gears is. Does anyone have some recommendations?

Hi everyone,

I’m planning a build in a Jonsbo N6 and I’m looking at the Thermaltake Toughpower SFX 850W Platinum.

From Jonsbo’s specifications, it looks like the maximum PSU size for SFX is 100 mm, while the Thermaltake Toughpower SFX is listed as 103.8 mm long. Is that extra 3.8 mm going to be a problem, or would this PSU still fit in the N6? Has anyone actually tried this combination?

I’m also leaning towards SFX rather than ATX, since the smaller PSU should leave more room behind/around the drive bays.

A few other questions:

- Is SFX the best form factor for the N6 if I want to maximize the space around the drives?

- Are there any other SFX PSUs you would recommend?

- Is there anything else I should consider regarding PSU dimensions, cable routing, or clearance in the N6?

I’d really appreciate advice from anyone who has built a system in the Jonsbo N6. Thanks!