I can highly recommend Synology, DSxxx I use Synology NAS for about 6 years after switching from Netgear Readynas. Compared to what I could build myself and/or Readynas - Synology is faster, has more features, quiet, lower power, cheaper and absolutely trouble free.
Having NAS is not free (as in beer), but it saves me a lot of $ over time on client storage, allow me to centralize and share storage, makes backup possible, and simple. I usually upgrade in about 5 years and keep the old unit for critical data backup. I would recommend using redundant setup if you do not want to risk loosing data, be it raid1,5 or 6. I use raid 5 in 4 disk unit. I access the data on NAS by NFS on linux and by CIFS/SMB on Windows. Note that using CIFS/SMB shares needs creating local users on the NAS which is then best to configure as AD + join your win PCs to it in order to manage all users centrally. If you do not use NAS as AD, you will need to synchronize clients- NAS users manually. Bonus points: if using local AD for logins you will avoid all this Win 10 forced upgrade mess completely. Hope it helps, Tomas On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 09:04:39 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > I need a NAS system which includes a two-bay enclosure capable of > holding two 6TB drives, and I want to start out with just one 6TB > drive. From my research so far I have determined that Western > Digital red drives are the best for this application, so the WD > WD60EFRX drive is at the top of my list. Suggestions for alternatives > are welcome. > > The enclosure, however, is a point of major confusion. It's amazing how > little actual information manufacturers web site give you. I'm sick of > reading how many photos of my loved ones I can place on the device. > > Since I'm leaning toward the WD drive above, WD enclosures would be > my first choice. Western Digital sells enclosures, but as far as I can > tell they only sell them as a unit with drives, i.e., if I buy a two-bay > enclosure it will come with two drives. > > My major confusions about the enclosures are about all the various > software features that they come with. My house is wired with Cat6 > ethernet, but all my computers are Linux only. None of the web sites > tell me much about the software on the enclosure. But maybe I just need > to plan to nuke the software the enclosure comes with and replace it > with open source bits. > > I need some education. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
