Question Home NAS research.

[nOOky]

I have a Sysology NAS in my Amazon cart, it is this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BRNBVTJK/ref=ewc_pr_img_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1 a simple two bay device.

I also have two 12TB drives like this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/15143424834 Seagate Ironwolf Pro 12TB drives.

I don't see a lot of posts regarding home NAS storage here so I thought I'd start one. My nephew has the Sysology and says it is simple to use and appears as a drive on the connected devices so I figure I could just use it as a backup and schedule regular backups to it. I chose 12TB drives because currently we only have about 5TB of stuff to back up so that leaved hopefully room for a few years. I want to mirror the 12TB drive hence ordering two. The NAS will sit in my office connected to a T-Mobile 5G router via cat 5 cable. I chose Seagate over WD drives for the slightly faster transfer speeds and health reporting.

Any recommendations for another brand of drive or NAS device would be welcome, the stuff will sit in my shopping carts today while I am out and about and I can think about it and maybe research a bit more before clicking "buy".

 

[dlerious]

Check out https://nascompares.com/

 

[In2Photos]

Do you have any old PCs laying around? You can use unRAID on just about anything. It's a great way to extend the life of older parts and there's a lot of community participation to help with any questions. Plus lots of ongoing development and updates. You also don't have to have identically sized drives. I have a 12TB for parity, and then 1-12TB, 1-4TB, and 3-3TB drives for a total of 25TB of storage. And the operating system runs on a USB flash drive so it doesn't waste a SATA or M.2 slot to boot.

 

[nOOky]

Ended up with the two Seagate drives for mirroring, and an Asustor as5402t NAS. I have an nvme ssd to use in the NAS. I don't have an old PC that I want to use for this project right now. Also, Amazon seems to suck lately, I found better deals at Walmart and other stores online today.

 

[willi_006]

Ended up with the two Seagate drives for mirroring, and an Asustor as5402t NAS. I have an nvme ssd to use in the NAS. I don't have an old PC that I want to use for this project right now. Also, Amazon seems to suck lately, I found better deals at Walmart and other stores online today.

Hello, can you please tell me, what you do with this? I'm new to these things but I'm fascinated to know about this after reading this post.

 

[manly]

Can't comment on ASUS NAS, but Synology burned a lot of bridges by rent seeking/enshittification.
They were well liked just a few years ago.

I don't implement the full 3-2-1 backup, but NAS/RAID-1 is not a backup. Ideally you'll have some no-effort backup of your new NAS that is off-site. IMO It all depends on how valuable your data is.