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12bay 2U rackmount NAS for data science or 8k video editing - Simple comparison:
4x drives in RAID0, 1x RAID1 for system, 1xRAID5(4xdrives) , 1x spare for RAID1 + 1x Spare for RAID5 = 12 bay config
Syno SA3600:
- grandpa Intel® Xeon® D-1567 12-core 2.1/2.7GHz (support for max. DDR4-2133)
- 16 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM
- max. RAM 128 GB (32 GB x 4)
- 2x 1G NIC + 2x 10G NIC
- 2x free expansion slots PCIe 3.0 8 lanes
- Redundant Power Supply
Base cost: 7,000.49 Eur (incl. VAT and shipping) + 3x16GB RAM upgrade = 3x416Eur = 1.248Eur (incl. VAT and shipping) + 175Eur M2D20 NVMe addapter
Total cost: 8,423.49 Eur (incl. VAT and shipping)
Note:
-2y of WP
- support from Syno is limited - only when I will use their HDD/SSD and RAM
vs. Custom build HW and TrueNAS sys:
- 12C/24t 3.5/4.6GHz i9-10920X
- MoBo Gigabyte X299-WU8 (server line) X299 chipset, 4x PCIe 4.0 16 lines or 1x PCIe 4.0 16 lines + 6x PCIe 4.0 8 lines, 8x SATA3, 1x M.2 NVMe 2280, max. RAM 256 GB, 2x1G NIC
- 4x16GB DDR4 3200 MHz ECC, Kingston KSM32RS4/16HDR
- 2x NIC Intel X540-BT2, 2x10G Base-T RJ45 PCIe x8
- 2x AMPCOM M.2 NVME to PCIe 4.0 Adapter (NVMe RAID)
- 1x additional LSI SAS 9361 SATAcontroller, PCI-E 3.0 12Gb/s, SATA/SAS 1GBcache, RAID0,1,10,5 ,6 for rest of the 4 bay
- CPU water cooling, Corsair H-115i
- 2U 12Bay NAS rackmount chassis, incl. Redundant power supply
Total cost: 3,087.30 Eur (incl. VAT and shipping) + a half-day for assembling (internal cost)
Note:
- 3x free expansion slots PCIe 4.0 8 lanes
- upgradeable to SAS by 12G SGPIO SA backplane (+250Eur)
- 2y of WP (excl. the chassis, there is just 1y)
- freely upgradable
- without limitation of used HW elements (HDD/SSD, RAM, expansion cards)
- one free and 3 levels of paid SLA support from TrueNAS
Conclusion:
Syno is the perfect brand for the mass market. No doubt. They have done an amazing job over the years.
Syno in performance-driven operation is really costly. And their HW can't compete with others in this area.
The example I gave is real because:
- this is not a comparison based on deliberately degraded Syno HW . Both contain server line elements.
- on the contrary, in comparison I emphasized to be one level higher than SA3600 (PCIe 4 vs 3), two independent controllers (I can easily put 3 here), RAM (3200 vs 2133), CPU (3.5 / 4.6 vs 2.1 / 2.7), two independent ports for NVMe cache (1x write, 1xread) vs common write / read cache in Syno.
- I know the possibilities of Syno very well (for home and for business operation, more than 10y) and I have been running my first TrueNAS for half a year.
And OFC, this NAS HW isn't created for the home Plex server. Reason for the purpose mentioned above.
So I will gradually replace the company's Syno devices with TrueNAS. Don't take it as anger, it's pure pragmatic science.
My notes:
Edit:
in the custom build is necessary to add the cost of Redundant PSU upgrade + 375Eur incl VAT
still the Total cost is about 3,463.00 Eur incl VAT. Great