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can you buy a NAS enclosure that does encryption?

Synology

You'll need to learn to trust AES though. (It's just about the only encryption standard that is hardware accelerated, and most cheap NAS devices don't have enough CPU horsepower to do anything else.)

Or you can get SEDs. There are some QNAP units that support them.
 
AES would be okay I guess I would have to trust it. Would a NAS enclosure with a celeron be enough to encrypt it, I think that I saw one for $569 but no mention of encryption.
 
BirdDad said:
AES would be okay I guess I would have to trust it. Would a NAS enclosure with a celeron be enough to encrypt it, I think that I saw one for $569 but no mention of encryption.
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Depends on the specific chip, and whether or not the NAS OS supports it. (The encryption is done on that side of things, not on the client.)

Find the manual on the manufacturer's website. If it doesn't say it supports encryption, don't buy it.
 
any that can run a newsserver download on their own or other download managers? Like when all the computers are off it can still be downloading for me?
 
Almost all of the modern NAS units allow for at least folder-level AES encryption. Ease of use wise, it's hard to go wrong with the Synology DS414j. It's the most expensive of most of your home options, but the interface is probably the easiest to use of most of the brands, and they have the most "apps" in their store vs other providers.

There's the opposite side with the Thecus N4310. It's interface is probably the worst for home use, and you'll spend alot of time doing in Linux command line what you could have been doing from a GUI on the Synology, but it's also >$100 less than the Synology.

In the middle of the pack is always the QNAP TS-431. It has a great interface, and a decent amount of 3rd party app support, but it's not quite as spiffy as the Synology units. It is however, definitely cheaper.

All of the above units offer Encryption at the folder level, and performance is pretty slow on all of them when using it (their ARM processors have encryption block support, but there's still only so much you can do with 2 ARM cores, and some encryption blocks when you also have to deal with a software RAID engine).

Sabnzbd can be made to run on any of the above NAS units and can give you a newsreader off of your NAS. It running will of course take horsepower and can lower your general NAS performance for other tasks.

As Dave above said, a direct USB connection is not a NAS, that's a DAS, and they work very differently. If you want to directly connect your computer with USB, you need a different type of device.
 
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