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Build Your Own NAS vs Buying a NAS?
Build Your Own NAS vs Buying a NAS?
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Why would you go for the trouble and order Chinese junk from Ali express to save 10 – 20 $ and then deal with all the other crap, besides what is the shipping cost you and the fact that you have to wait months the get you stuff , if it arrives at all … anyhow some people do I guess .
You forgot to mention that if you already have an old PC, you can pretty much turn that into a working NAS with not much cost other than some extra hard disks you might wanna get. You also don't have to build that from scratch.
So I guess I'll get the UGREEN NASync DXP4800 plus… fingers crossed
saved me from going down a rabbit hole trying to build my own, because the additional cost of ready to go is preferable to building what would become an expensive external hard drive.
Thank you for helping me make my (so hard) decision! I could decide until I watched your video
As a first timer, getting into NAS, this is just what I need to know. Now which turnkey do I want?
I would just like to point out, I have TrueNAS installed and running (current uptime 14days) from a usb stick. I tried flashing the iso to it on a laptop and it failed however when trying on my pc with etcher it worked, I wasn't expecting it, just FYI. (It's a sandisk 64 GB usb stick)
I'd build my own if I could just use a synology OS on it.
So I bought a dell T620 with 6 500gb drives and 256gb of memory for $400. Yeah, it’s loud… but boy is it fun to explore. Running truenas scale on it.
Excellent video the only thing missing i think is eBay ( old retired severs)
Thx so much. I liked the idea of using my old gaming PC from 8 to 10 years ago with truNAS but i am a complete noob and i do not understand anything from docker vm linux etc. So…i go synology coz i only want to save Fotos and record from 2 surveillance cameras at most with it and maybe use plex. Ripping Bluray or Uhd is forbitten in Germany so no need for bis storage. We mainly stream new stuff from Apple TV and Prime App.
For a home user, i use now a western digital my cloud ex2 ultra 12 Tb nas for 399 euro = 341,95 pounds . My old western digital my cloud mirror 4Tb nas dit is job for 7 years . Ideal for Photo and data storage. And have cloud acces. I have also an Proxmox and Unraid server , and i use my nas as backup.
222 pounds for a NAS motherboard? Does it cure cancer?
Just build a super cheap pc in a mid tower case and slam some 12tb sata drives in it….. Done
Why bother with a 12th gen in a NAS? A 4th gen is probably comparable to the kind of embedded processors in turnkey units, and it'll cost you under $5 at this point. Get more drives with that money instead.
Stop supporting communist countries and supporting sites such as aliexpress
Do you really trust AliExpress to buy a lot of this stuff from there. I've seen a lot of places that sell ram or ssds and other storage drivers that are basically faked. It has the numbers on the contoer chip scrached out so you dont know what it is and even some of the nan chips will be missing and covered so you dont see they arent there. But it will be set up for the computer to think everything is normal.
God, you talk too much.
Prices today are much lower than when this video was published. It would make sense to update it
I like your comparison. I made that for myself couple of years ago and most likely it's sooo time consuming. That was the reason decided to remove my own Server and replace it with a build NAS. It's just less overhead.
I've been in this PC business since 1968, first as a hobby later for work (supposedly paid for my hobby, now retired and supposedly experienced everything).
ICT is a difficult concept for many, so oh we do that is often the failure of your life, especially if you have to take a long time to understand everything, then rather buy ready-made, for those that is precisely how it is made.
If you are handy and you understand everything without a hitch, only then you can start self-building, the result is there, it works the 1st time without fail.
My last diy server is retiring this week, after 15 years of service, a treunas system from which only the hard drives have been upgraded.
The new one will be a TreuNas Ryzen5 3600, immediately nice and modern and good for the next 15 years hopefully, who knows, the last one for my coffin, chuckle.
You do not need 16GB of ram for TrueNAS. Deduplication and ZFS ARC cache are the two things that need RAM when using ZFS. Deduplication is often not worth the trouble and ARC is adaptable to half of your memory by default. You can get away with very little if you don't need ultra performance.
And do not cheap out on the PSU!
boring as frak
Great video for anybody wondering about the savings and troubles of DIY! There's a lot of potential for a follow-up or series comparing costs through the lifetime of these systems. How do they compare 5 or 10 years down the road? What systems allow for upgrading components, adding more drives and/or expansion units?
One 5TB, one 4TB eternal drive, both well less than $100. Copy to one, then copy to another. Plug the 5TB one into a raspberry pi as SAMBA drive. Done.
Personally I'm buying the Fractal 304 from Amazon for a case. And I never plug anything from Ali into the wall. But you pay your money, you take your choice.
To be honest I've had synology nas for like a decade now'. Starting with a 2 bays, then 4,another 4 and lastly a 10 bays.. That last one was expensive (and the 10tb hard drives even more so..) and I thought it was the price to pay for my business as a photographer and videographer..
Dealing with 8k raw video files etc takes up hdd space like nothing before.. But I'm really disappointed with the perf of my ds2415+
Not only i didn't get the dsm 7 update like 1+ year after my old ds1517 for whatever reason, I also find it slow as HELL on pretty much anything it does
The support while there is slow and nowhere near what a BUSINESS requires (we pay business prices, we expect business services)
And today my system is dying somehow, the nas doesn't tell me what's going on, the hdd looks fine, and yet I barely can access my system or network drives at all.
Of course I have a lot of important files on it and I'm stuck waiting for support to reply to me now hoping for some fixes somehow
Tldr: those big nas are expensive as hell, they're piss poor performance for the bucks (it costs more than what my freaking workstation costed me to edit 4k videos) and can barely do any task, let alone any task in parallel.
So right now I'm looking to build my own nas.
I actually got old pcs, I'm thinking of turning one of them in a truenas or something, cos at this point even my 6y old pc runs everything better than my latest synology anyway.
My guy has more Aliexpress tabs open than me damn
What about the time you spend building it all? Surely that is 400$
You went about it the WRONG way. You should've gone for regular x86 processors with 35w tdp, mini itx board and "nas" case. Going for ARM just because that's what NAS use is not realizing a huge benefit of building a nas yourself. You could've even found some boards with integrated Celerons that would've been cheaper than what you did here (and more powerful than most NAS).
Thanks great comparison. Buying a turnkey solution made a lot more sense during the recent Prime Day sales which brought the monetary differences down significantly.
Decided to go for a DIY NAS, to replace paid cloud services. Bought a used Dell Optipex mini with Haswell Core i3 3.1Ghz for 42GBP. Had 8Gb. memory and 360Gb. HDD from Haswell laptop upgrade. Using OMV and Plex, with external USB3 Crucial 500Gb. SSD. Also runs a webserver mapped to 8080 and 443, and monero mining; AdGuardHome and unbound DNS. Might try to get Open Office document server on port 81. Bit tricky getting nextcloud server as well. Thats possible on True NAS Core, but i don't have or need multiple storage disks, yet. M2 A-E Key slots (WiFi) can have adapter to M2 M Key for NVMe. System runs off 24v solar, using a buck module at 19v (just like the laptop with 16Gb & Samsung 2Tb. SSD Hackintosh Mac OS Big Sur, and external Samsung 1Tb. SSD Time Machine). Router on 12v, along with Satellite box and Android TV box. Network Switch and a Raspberry Pi on 5v running Victron Venus OS for solar & BMS monitoring. Had been running the Crucial SSD on the Raspberry Pi, with rsync. Was looking at more cores on ARM SBC's but they cost at least twice as much.
yes I disagree
Compairs a Celeron to a 12400. That is not even remotely a fair comparison
One bad Chinese cable will ruin all this work, on power set it on fire. That gets expensive with all those drives. Yes dear reader I do know.