NAS Storage

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@Mav  Fraid not, we're talking memory for the NAS. Synology's own memory costs a lot, but most use compatible ones........ 

If it comes with 4GB you could add 4 =8GB, or add 8 =12GB, or replace the 4 with 2x8 =16GB

Mine came from Crucial 4 years ago so specs and prices may have changed.

CT2C8G3S186DM.M16FN 2-8GB DDR3L-1866 SODIMM 1.35V CL13

£120.99

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£120.99

[#2]

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@Mav wrote:

@RobPN 

The budget of £500 is for the NAS unit ex HDDs

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Fair enough @Mav , I was going by this;

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@Mav wrote:

... I could possibly get 4 x 6TB drives for less than £500. ...

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[#3]

Thanks for all the advice guys.

I'm holding back on the NAS for a while as I have just spent a small fortune on a Ryzen 9 5950X self-build PC for photo and video editing and two new 32" monitors😎

Shhhhh Don't tell SWMBO🤐

[#4]

Sold the car to your Daughter ?

[#5]

Already bought her a 2008 Land Rover Sport

It's been more trouble than it's worth and is, yet again, in the garage for repairs all under warranty, thankfully.

[#6]

@Mav Two 32" Monitors, you could end up looking like Sid from Ice Age with that amount of estate in front of you. I can't fully see my 27" Apple and 27" LG. 

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I'm a bit worried they might be over-kill but they've received excellent reviews.

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Have you thought of a DIY solution? 

There are some excellent free NAS software suites available where you can take an old PC tower, populate it with some discs and build your own NAS.  I have used a HP Microserver that has 4/5 disc bays and put OpenMediaVault on it.  It works very well and goes very very fast.  You can also learn a new skill in building it.  The documentation is also very good. 

For the Client side of this I use Filezilla which is also free of charge.

I forgot to add that you get a HP Microserver off Flebay for a loss less than £100 and can make the whole thing boot from a USB stick and so don't lose a disc for a system disc

[#9]

I had an HP microserver gen 4 running netware 4, highly recommend, ridiculous pricing on EBay....

[#10]

Is netware still a thing?

I once tangled with Netware 3.x and it was horrible.

[#11]

Strange, I worked with versions 2,3 & 4 and found 3 was the easiest. I did eventually get to grips with NDS in 4...........