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Beginner looking for NAS advice (kbin.social)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Kaldo@kbin.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm looking for advice on how to get started with a NAS, probably Synology since it's beginner friendly and often well recommended. I'm thinking of a 2 bay case with 2x4TB HDDs in RAID1 setup. What do I have to look out for in a device to get the best bang for my bucks?

My use case:

I have various documents, software projects, family pictures, videos that I want to store on something more reliable than a bunch of internal/external HDDs or USB sticks. I have a full *arr stack and jellyfin but I want to move these to my "server" laptop and docker once NAS is setup, and then host the files on it. For projects I might want to self-host gitea down the line.

Some more specific questions:

if I go with a 2 bay NAS case, can i also connect my old external drive to it as a separate drive, can they handle USB3 drives? Will it require reformatting since it was used on windows so far?
are there any issues with connecting docker ~~drives~~ volumes to a NAS?
noise issues - does the NAS itself make a noticeable amount of noise or is it just the drives?
whats the life expectancy of a NAS? if it dies, can I just plug the drives into a new one?
does syncthing work well with a NAS or is there a better way of syncing local files to the NAS for backup?

Sorry for the question dump, just wanted to cover as many possible issues as possible 😅

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[–] gummibando@mastodon.social 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

@Kaldo
Syno DS224+. Good bang vs. buck. Decent speed, decent features (iGPU, Docker, VMs).
My only gripe(s): only 2 USB ports, no built-in 2.5 GbE (possible via USB and 3rd party driver) and Synology's limited list of "approved" HDDs.

Yes. If your HDD is formatted as NTFS or exFAT, no reformat _should_ be necessary.
What do you mean by docker drives?
Mainly the drives.
My DS216+II runs 24/7 for 7 years now without hiccup (but, obvisously, YMMV). DSM supports drive migration.

[–] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My only gripe(s): only 2 USB ports

I have a DS2422+ and even that only has 2 USB ports. But you can expand them with a USB-hub. I had 5 external drives connected over a single port without issues.

Synology’s limited list of “approved” HDDs.

You can use this script and put it as a scheudeled task "on boot". It will automatically add all your harddrives to the list of verified drives, disabling all warnings and errors with it.

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