Cheile Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Thinking of investing in one. What would the JKB techeads recommend? Not looking for huge amount of storage, probably 6 or 8 TB max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kila Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 6-8TB is quite huge! Need to know what your usage plans are. To serve the local network with what? Will it be serving as a media server, or just for your backups of whatever devices you/your household has? If your IT knowledge is reasonably good, any NAS that you can re-flash the firmware on and use the open source Linux distro Tomato would be ideal. Synology's selection worth looking at. Important to remember, disks will die, and in a heavily used NAS, life expectancy will be shorter. So you'll need to consider your data redundancy options. It's more money, but worth investing in one that supports RAID5 or even RAID10. Means you'll need more than one disk to fail before you start to lose data. So if one failed, slot in the new disk and it'll automatically rebuild and be back to normal. But given the capacity you want to go for, you'll need to spend quite a bit. The more redundancy you have in a RAID setup, the less usable capacity you get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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