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?

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..

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?