• state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        That looks nice, but I am not getting anything close to the listed prices. I don’t see the board for under 400 Euro, the PSU is off by a factor of 10 and so on. Overall I don’t think I can build the PC for less than the 573 Euro a Synology DS923+ would cost me. The only upside of the custom build would be that I can attach more than 4 disks.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t see anything that would be cheaper than a DS923 from Synology, which costs 570 plus the drives. The cheapest I see still costs me 1200 Euro for everything.

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        I want to go for a 4 bay one, so that I’ll survive a disk failure. And then you’re looking at about 2000 Euro for the NAS and four drives.

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          1 year ago

          Just buy a used PC and the drives. You don’t have to buy them all at once since you can add drives to your RAID.

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            1 year ago

            I’ve got old PCs, but would rather have something that uses very little power rather than some ancient Athlon X2 running full tilt.

            Those mini PCs are neat, but lack space for drives.

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              As far as I can tell a Dell small form factor and Synology idle around 15-25w and 15w respectively. Both seem to pop up to 30-45w under average load depending on what you’re doing with them. But it depends on the kind of processor you pick and additional drives will also pull more wattage.

              The SFF units are limited on space. The one I have is limited to one HDD although you could put a few SATA SSDs in there and 1 nvme. The SSDs would be more expensive but lower energy use. I’ve been toying with attaching a external HDD mount to the case to see if I could add in some extra drives.

              I’m not familiar with the EU/UK market, but in the US I got my used Dell for $87 from eBay. It came with 8Gb RAM and a 250Gb SSD. And it had cosmetic damage so the seller sent me a second for free :P

              I think depending on how much storage you need it could be a viable alternative.

              Currently I’m still using my Odroid HC4 which is probably super power efficient but limited to 2 drives and it isn’t very powerful.

              The Synology units are much more user friendly out of the box though. Also I guess it depends on if you just want a NAS or if you eventually want to get into self hosting.

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            1 year ago

            RAID1 is nice, but you lose 50% of your total capacity to the mirroring. I want to go with 4 drives and RAID5. I only give up 1 drive of capacity and can still lose one without losing data. If I invest money into this I don’t want to compromise too much, as it needs to last for years.

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          1 year ago

          I noticed, but it kinda works. One takes you to learn more about the brand and the other to the store site.

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      1 year ago

      I built by own NAS for $100 and with old HDDs I had lying around. Buy used, old parts on eBay (like 10 years old) install Unraid trial. Bob’s your uncle. Then you can upgrade as you go as needed.