Hello everyone, I’m new here. If this post should have been in a different area, please let me know.
As I said in the title, I need some advise for buying my first NAS system.
1st choice:
-QNAP TS-233-US 2 Bay $200
-Seagate IronWolf 8TB HDD $180
2nd choice:
QNAP TS-264-8G-28ST-US 2 Bay $438
Seagate IronWolf 12TB $285
3rd choice:
Ugreen NASync DH4300 Plus, with the new Ugreen UPS bundled $424
Seagate IronWolf 12TB $285
Uses, as this is my 1st NAS, I’ll be using it to make a clone/backup of my phone and laptop. Yes, I’m planning on buying a SECOND NAS to make progress towards the 1-2-3 data backup rule.
I’ll post more on that later.
I have many questions regarding TrueNAS, ZFS and so on, but I’ll post those later, as I want to avoid posting the never-ending-wall-of-text here.
Use someone’s old gaming machine and spend your money on storage instead. Two drives at a minimum. Don’t worry about a graphics card either, I just mentioned used gaming machine because I think people build all-new systems and peel off their old hardware to fund their new builds. No over clocks, you want a gently used machines.
As I told another guy, for your first Nas you want higher drive counts than total storage, to begin. A 3 way, 4tb array is better than a single 8tb drive. Assuming that 3 way array is 3 4tb drives in raidz1, total space is merely 8tb, you lose a drive to parity but you can afford to lose one of those three drives at any time without data loss. Also you are reading from a group of drives instead of just one, improving read speeds.
Now you can scour fb marketplace or your local thrift store for used hardware and focus on storage.
Sure, even better. I’m on shop goodwill looking at an IBM m2 with 4core Xeon for $15, and a whopping $50 for shipping. But it has ecc also, ddr2. Assuming it’s good to go stuffing it with more ram and storage is where the money goes in this build.
The first post along with the hardware listed doesn’t point to ZFS nor TrueNAS. You list devices with 2 or 4 drive bays
You should go over the Hardware Guide in the TrueNAS documents. Min RAM is 8GB, 16GB min recommended. Also see the ZFS Primer to understand what ZFS and TrueNAS are and if it is a fit for your use case.
You are probably fine with any of the first three choices for basic NAS storage with the embedded OS on those devices
