In a tale as old as time I had a scare with a possibly corrupted/ and/or failing HDD last week and I've been putting more thought into backing up my stuff a little more regularly. Since I'm also fiddling around with setting up a Plex server, I figured NAS would work best so I could serve both use cases (or at least I assume it can) at once. I've also got some spare hardware from a recent PC upgrade (an i5 6600k, a GTX 970, and 16 gigs of DDRsomething RAM). As someone who's like, gaming level tech-savvy (IE can use a computer, but no experience with servers or non-Windows OS), would I be better served just buying something prebuilt/standalone like one of the Synology solutions, or would I get better performance/features out of making a DIY server with a bunch of storage? I'm willing to read up and learn some stuff, because computers are neat.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 00:10 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:29 |
BurgerQuest posted:Unraid makes it pretty easy if you'd prefer to use your spare hardware and if you're planning on running Plex for more than one device/share to friends over the internet I'd suggest you'll want the extra power for transcoding vs a Synology solution. I'd be interested in sharing over the internet so I could take my library with me, so homemade sounds like the better option then. IOwnCalculus posted:If you can read and follow directions, you aren't space / noise constrained, and you don't mind not having IPMI, you've already got some seriously good hardware for a server. I'm reading a lot of recommendations for ECC memory, but considering I'd need a new motherboard and new RAM on top of the new case and PSU I'll need regardless, that starts looking like double the price of a 2 drive Synology NAS even with a free CPU and GPU. Is ECC memory really that important or is this another case of hardware enthusiasts with deep pockets doing some unintentional gatekeeping?
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 15:46 |
Thanks for all the responses, y'all. My budget doesn't allow for buying a new $300 motherboard and RAM, so non-ECC it is! Super important stuff will be redundantly stored ~in the cloud~ and I can always replace the media files. So now it's just acquiring a case, a PSU, and some HDDs which should be simple enough. Then I gotta look up the software side of things.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 19:15 |
I'm looking into getting a Synology DS220+ for media storage/serving. From what I've read, it doesn't seem like running any sort of RAID would do much for me other than waste space, since I'm not doing anything time sensitive with it and could just restore from backup when needed; am I correct in this assumption? Also, if I'm not running RAID would I be able to add a second HDD at any point down the line or would I need to start with both drive slots full?
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# ¿ May 7, 2021 15:53 |