Hi all. NAS home user here!
Previous NAS was a Zyxel NSA325 which was EOLed back in Jan 2014, it did the job for about 10 years but lately the noise was getting concerning even with regular cleaning (it was definitely in its death screams or at least its fan was lol!) but it was cheap as chips and the HDD I purchased actually cost more than the enclosure! The other problem being security, it was feeling its age and opening it to the internet would have been an incredibly bad idea considering the last security patch it received was from a third party dev about 3 or 4 years ago as I recall.
Inevitably it was time for a new solution, so I purchased a DS220+ and got to say "I am well impressed!". Only using one bay at this time with a single 4TB WD red plus loaded but thinking on a second one to bring it up to 8TB and I should be good (for now), also bumped the RAM with a 4GB stick. I don't require RAID, just seems overkill for a home user so JBOD is good enough with important pics/music sent to a side loaded drive as monthly backup, the rest can burn. This DS220+ is a huge step up from my previous NAS and I still have a lot to discover and learn, DSM is such a powerful OS but its applications are massive, love it like a kid with a new toy!
So I will be frequenting this forum quite often but as I said, I am a lurker and a reader so if the info is here, I WILL find it lol.
I call BS on forums dying out, they will always be here because communities are far too important for real time info!
Thanks for listening folks.
Previous NAS was a Zyxel NSA325 which was EOLed back in Jan 2014, it did the job for about 10 years but lately the noise was getting concerning even with regular cleaning (it was definitely in its death screams or at least its fan was lol!) but it was cheap as chips and the HDD I purchased actually cost more than the enclosure! The other problem being security, it was feeling its age and opening it to the internet would have been an incredibly bad idea considering the last security patch it received was from a third party dev about 3 or 4 years ago as I recall.
Inevitably it was time for a new solution, so I purchased a DS220+ and got to say "I am well impressed!". Only using one bay at this time with a single 4TB WD red plus loaded but thinking on a second one to bring it up to 8TB and I should be good (for now), also bumped the RAM with a 4GB stick. I don't require RAID, just seems overkill for a home user so JBOD is good enough with important pics/music sent to a side loaded drive as monthly backup, the rest can burn. This DS220+ is a huge step up from my previous NAS and I still have a lot to discover and learn, DSM is such a powerful OS but its applications are massive, love it like a kid with a new toy!
So I will be frequenting this forum quite often but as I said, I am a lurker and a reader so if the info is here, I WILL find it lol.
I call BS on forums dying out, they will always be here because communities are far too important for real time info!
Thanks for listening folks.