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I'll just add this into your train of thought - I went with a gen 8 HP microserver running Freenas 11, and very happy after previously being a Synology person.
It's a little more clunky but more powerful, and overall I just really like the reliability of ZFS and the BSD core over what Synology went with, which I think is a BTRFS derivative.
I have the xeon upgrade, 16gb ECC RAM, and then 4 bays + space to mount SSDs. I put one into the optical bay using a caddy. It also has a microSD slot, which you can put a 100mb/s sandisk card into and those cover my zil + l2arc caching. Using SSDs for just
the caching gives you the speed of SSD but then the cheap outlet of using regular drives for your array. You can imagine how cheap big SSDs will be when it's time to update a batch of 4 or 6tb drives in a few years.
Also has ilo on board and 2 nics that you can bond for a dual gigabit setup. It's possible to add a 10gigE card if you have a switch with a 10gigE port, or if want to set up a single point to point 10g connection with your workstation. That could really scream
if you had dual SSD caches feeding it, should be able to saturate that. Or you could add a 4 port gigabit card. Or wifi, like you wanted (could do that with USB though). Having the pci-e onboard helps things quite a bit, keeps it flexible.
Great energy usage - low idle.
They are a bit hard to find since I think HP is up to gen 10 now, but the gen 8 was really a sweet, stout little box. Freenas is worth the learning curve - all the vm/docker stuff pretty much perfected it in my opinion.
just some ideas.
From: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv> on behalf of Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 6:59 PM To: After Effects Mail List Subject: [AE] Considerations for NAS Hi all,
I’m looking to make my home setup a bit more professional and at some point I will get a NAS. I retired my Drobo a few years ago but I am guilty of cluttering my desk with a bunch of external hard drives and I want something a bit more substantial
for the future.
For those who’ve already bought a NAS, beyond the basic question of brand (probably Synology or Qnap), I’d appreciate any insight on features that I should consider or that might catch me out if they’re not in cheaper models.
My initial thoughts are:
- at least 6 or 8 bays
- redundancy (ie RAID)
- 2 1/2” bays - preferably optimised for flash drives only
- 10 gig Ethernet for future proofing
- easy to expand. Will probably start with a few drives and add more over the years
- Mac & Windows - if that’s even still an issue these days
- Built in Wifi (?)
Anything else? When I bought my Drobo over 10 years ago, the main feature was its ability to mix different drive sizes. Not sure if that’s something which has spread to other brands.
I’d like to think I’ll never have to purchase another spinning hard drive again, so the entry level FS model from Synology looks interesting but expensive:
This Qnap is cheaper but with different features:
All advice is welcome!
-Chris
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