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Rapster wrote:6TB drives that will be added to a RAID 5 (or SHR) volume for a total of 6 matched drives
Rapster wrote:Suppose a lightning strike, rodent, flood, robber, or errant beer mishap takes out 2+ drives. What are you doing for backup?This is my precious data we're talking about and it has to "just work" all the time without having to read the tea leaves to get it right.
Redocbew wrote:I tried running Plex on a few different Synology NAS units and didn't have great results. Not enough CPU power to really make it worthwhile.
just brew it! wrote:A little surprised/disappointed it doesn't have ECC RAM, at that price point.
Duct Tape Dude wrote:Suppose a lightning strike, rodent, flood, robber, or errant beer mishap takes out 2+ drives. What are you doing for backup?
Waco wrote:I'd build my own at that price point. I wouldn't trust my data to a RAID 5 with a standard FS either...
End User wrote:I absolutely love my Synology setup at home. I have an DS1512+ paired with a DX510 (primary backup). Offsite backup is handled by external USB 3.1 Gen 1 drives.
I use SHR. I've had drives fail and I have also expanded the capacity on the fly, I've had no issues (touch wood) installing replacement drives and having the NAS rebuild the array.
The NAS ties in nicely to my UPS via a USB connection.
I'd also look at QNAP products.
Losergamer04 wrote:I'm loving my Plex app on FreeNAS. I think some nas units in this price range offer it but I don't think that model does. If you are remotely considering it in the future I recommend you look into it. The transcoding is hardware based in many models and consumers much less power.
Losergamer04 wrote:Well, maybe but those boxes but some have hardware transcoding or a slightly more powerful system with a Core CPU. I'm rolling my own so I'm only suggesting based off my research before I did my own project. Maybe something like this would work? It's more money but it may serve you better.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00S0XSH ... th=1&psc=1
The system you likened is not a plug and play Plex system and needs some hackery to work. It would struggl even with a single transcode stream.
Rapster wrote:Can I ask what type of UPS you use?
Rapster wrote:Waco wrote:I'd build my own at that price point. I wouldn't trust my data to a RAID 5 with a standard FS either...
Many folks here seem to have *lots* of hardware sitting around, making this a viable option for them. But I'd have to buy everything. When I looked into this, it seemed like I'd save about $300-400 on a DIY project, but it could well eat up a week or two of my evenings researching, setting up, and then tuning and testing. I'd rather pay the cash and have my evenings free.
The only caveat to this is that it seems like a DIY NAS would have much more power, be more flexible, and more upgradeable. The commercial offerings seem to generally be underpowered for much "real" work. To compensate for this, I might have to eventually add some type of transcoder box.
Rapster wrote:All the things you mention are a real concern, especially beer and lightning. Backups are currently a mix of external HDDs and cloud storage. All the really important stuff is in the cloud, but storing a full media collection there is impractical given my internet bandwidth. If I lose the NAS, then much of the media I've ripped will be lost; since I own all my media on disc it'll just mean re-ripping (this will take weeks-months).
Any advice on how to backup a 20TB disk array?
Waco wrote:After losing files to bitrot and/or filesystem corruption in the past, I dove head-first into it.
That, and stupid human admin mistakes, once things are set up properly, become easy to fix.
Losergamer04 wrote:ZFS is awesome. It's my understanding that Oracle won't open up the license and that's what's really holding it back. I remember using it with Solaris 10 and zones. It's awesome stuff.
JBI wrote:To date nobody has challenged them in court, but they are in a legal grey area with this move.
Waco wrote:When you get the point of building your own, start a thread! There are a lot of things you can do wrong without realizing it, especially if you jump into ZFS land.