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So, i'm looking at a dual-drive NAS system (my WD MyCloud is a single drive and aging). Would this be a reasonable option?

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Jun 1 '21, 13:12

I'd get two 6TB drives and upgrade the RAM to what Amazon has suggested on this....is that decent?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087Z6SNC1/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 (www.amazon.com)

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May I ask what you need a NAS for? I retired my NAS in favor of just slapping a big hard drive into my desktop PC - oblique Jun 1, 13:23 4
- We have several different computers to feed into it and I like the idea of redundancy. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 14:22 2
  - With RAID it's also easy, in theory, to pull a drive and put it in a safe place and then put in a blank drive to be filled up with the existing data. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 14:44 1
    - Right...this would be Raid-1 as a standard -- We have too much stuff I don't want to risk losing on aging storage devices. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 14:48
- I'm running a minecraft server in Docker on mine, as well as storing all my "raw" video files for editing, which don't fit on my laptop - Beryllium Jun 1, 13:38
Synology is a well regarded brand, if that's what you're asking. -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 13:22 3
- Yep. I've got a DS221+ and I like it. Only downside is that macOS time machine doesn't like it, but that's probably not an issue here. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 13:32 2
  - FWIW, I maintain 3 separate QNAP devices institutionally. I have no complaints about QNAP. -- nm - Mop Jun 1, 13:35
  - Oh, I got spinning rust instead of SSDs (in order to save about $800) and since it's in my bedroom I kinda wish I had got the SSDs instead. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 1, 13:33
Also, how easy is it to upgrade the RAM from the 2gb to the 6gb? Is it something you need legit tech skills to do? -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 13:14 3
- Looks like the RAM upgrade is a laptop SO-DIMM. Highly recommended model -- (link*) - budice Jun 1, 13:23 1
  - So that 4GB is a highly recommended model? -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 1, 14:25
- In everything I've dealt with, the major difficulty in upgrading RAM is getting your big hands into a small space. No real tech skills required. -- nm - crash davis Jun 1, 13:19

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