NAS systems vs a home made NAS

[DJ-Daz]

I used to have a WD EX4100 and my review is here:
https://the-bionic-cyclist.co.uk/2018/0 ... er-review/

So after getting rid, I just used my old PC as a file server running Windows 10 and Plex.

But I got a notification from Youtube today and it was about a Synology 4 Bay NAS DiskStation DS920+ (Diskless), 4-Bay; 4GB DDR4
The retail price is well in excess of £500 plus you need to populate it yourself.

So I thought wow, that's prohibitively expensive, you can build a PC for that and it would perform better, and can be configured to do a shit load more stuff.

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I very quickly priced one up on https://cclonline.com for less than £300, now that £250 saved could go towards hard drives to install into it.

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So build a PC yourself, it's cheaper, faster, more capable and install freeNAS, openNAS, or any of the other NAS operating systems. IIRC also synology power supplies are fucking garbage. They fail at the 13 month mark, just outside the warranty.

[DJ-Daz]

[DJ-Daz]

See it works and it only cost me £55.00 plus drives.
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[theENIGMATRON]

@DJ-Daz So i finally removed all my external storage, NAS, Pi's hosting storage.
Anything important is stored in the cloud, any media, music, movies etc i use one device now.
Google TV Chromecast

Have all the Apps installed i need for Music or Media, Streaming apps Netflix etc all installed and i use a great little app called Stremio
This allows me to stream torrents on the fly, so basically free movies and tv shows. (Similar to Popcorn Time, actually i think you can add that into the repo list)

So good i got two, one for the upstairs tv now!!

[DJ-Daz]

@DJ-Daz So i finally removed all my external storage, NAS, Pi's hosting storage.
Anything important is stored in the cloud, any media, music, movies etc i use one device now.
Google TV Chromecast

Have all the Apps installed i need for Music or Media, Streaming apps Netflix etc all installed and i use a great little app called Stremio
This allows me to stream torrents on the fly, so basically free movies and tv shows. (Similar to Popcorn Time, actually i think you can add that into the repo list)

So good i got two, one for the upstairs tv now!!

Who's cloud? Your own hosted cloud or google/dropbox or some other cloud?

[DJ-Daz]

It seems that Stremio is just another type of media server, nothing special. Though I suppose it's the addons that make it special.
https://www.stremio.com/

[theENIGMATRON]

I use gdrive pay abit more for storage and photos etc.
But since I got google tv I lost the need for a NAS.

I'll download anything I need on the fly, or stream anything I want to watch using Stremio, has repos for streams. Simlar to popcorn time.

I have a 2T drive that I keep a hard copy of photos and life's source code on, but I just carry that around with work laptop now. I don't have any local NAS.
Just a Pihole on a VPS to keep them pesky ads away.

BTW if you want access to it let me know. It's a split of my server just for pihole

[DJ-Daz]

Yeah I'll have access, daddio!
At least I can patch it up then without bothering you, after all, you won't sleep now for the next oh, 25 years?

[DJ-Daz]

If you use OpenVPN you can use my Pihole as a VPN (Will block ads and also grant you access to blocked websites by ISP)
Here is the File you need to add to the OpenVPN.

I could never get openVPN working on my Pi.
Luckily my seedbox has a working VPN.

[theENIGMATRON]

Well feel free to use that one, It runs on a VPS so never usually have any issues, Only thing i wont filter is youtube ads.
I use a Firefox extension for that now, and i use Vanced Youtube on my phone for Ad Free youtube, but other than that, its as good as gold

[DJ-Daz]

I'm curious Dave, how much do you charge for hosting?
I'd be interested in a host and around 200GB of space. HDD or SSD speed doesn't matter.

It might generate a lot of traffic though, and only to me.

[theENIGMATRON]

Can you give me any info on what?
As it could be more effective to isolate a small cpu and ram but allocate more HHD space.

Is it home streaming/ video music an stuff?
I.e having your music bank in the cloud an streaming on the go

[DJ-Daz]

Can you give me any info on what?
As it could be more effective to isolate a small cpu and ram but allocate more HHD space.

Is it home streaming/ video music an stuff?
I.e having your music bank in the cloud an streaming on the go

Yeah it's just SubSonic. It'd be nice to have a subsonic "cloud" server of some sort, and you know, turn off my desktop PC, and ping my signature off that instead of my local PC.

I tried setting it up on one of my Pi's, but the instructions say it requires openjdk-8-jre, I think that goes all the way up to 18 now! that's how out of date the instructions are. That and the 120+ dependencies. I did get it working to a fashion, but it was almost completely non-functional.

[theENIGMATRON]

I could do it for erm....... £15/20 ish ball park a month, would have to giggle it around but give or take.

[DJ-Daz]

Wow, that's a bit expensive, but it's a big ask too. A fair amount of space and traffic is required. Probably in the region of 200GB of space and probably2-3GB per day transferred.
Sorry m8e, I can't afford that.