New NAS recommendations wanted

[akbray]

Hi all,

In the near future I need to buy a new NAS. I have had 2 Buffalo units, and the best way I can describe them is "slow, unreliable pieces of excrement". Or something similar.

At the moment all of my family photos are on my laptop, having had to spend a small fortune recovering them from a dead Buffalo (not a phrase I thought I'd ever use!)

I don't think my requirements are particularly unusual. I'm reasablyt technically minded but I'm simply not familiar with all of the brands and models out there. It doesn't have to be big-brand either - quite happy to go for a good-value non-branded product. What I'm looking for is:

- Min. 2-disk RAID

- 3 or 4Gb capacity per disk (6 or 8Gb in total), but happy to buy HDD's separately from enclosure

- In-built P2P client

- small form factor and quiet (it's going to have to fit in or behind a TV cabinet)

- Ethernet connectivity is fine, WiFi is a nice to have, but really not important

- I don't care about remote access

- I would prefer to have Cloud or online backup given that this will be used to store all of my family photo's

- Good value. I don't have huge amounts to spend but don't want buy spend the bare minimum and get rubbish.

- It's not made by Buffalo (just in case this wasn't already clear)


Thanks

 

[NickC4555]

I'm very happy with my QNAP HS-210 with 4Tb (2x2Tb) WD Red drives installed. Great control panel, every network service and app you could want. I have a chunk of mine set up as an iSCSI drive to give my NUC more "local" drive capacity. Very quiet too, mine sits under the TV as a part of my media setup.

I wouldn't recommend it for media transcoding, the ARM processor doesn't have the horsepower, but that's what I have the NUC for.

 

[Captain_Cretin]

I have a Lenovo IX2 DL, not the best in the world, but I picked it up from Amazon for £60, plus £100 for 2x2TB Toshiba drives.

 

[akbray]

Thanks for the recommendations. The Qnap TS-212 looks like it meets my criteria, and looking at Amazon I can buy the enclosure for £110, plus 2 x 3TB Seagate drives for £136 so I'd have a 6Gb NAS for £246.

The model with the HDD's pre-installed on Amazon is £322, so that's not a bad saving!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/QNAP-TS-212...ie=UTF8&qid=1448555558&sr=1-1&keywords=TS-212


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-720...TF8&qid=1448555025&sr=1-6&keywords=hard+drive