ckorhonen
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So I've been thinking about a NAS for a while and need some advice on what best meets my needs.
I'm looking for something to use at home as a Plex server. Primarily I'll be streaming to Apple TV and other iOS devices. Also I've been looking at homebridge and airsonos - I'd like to be able to run those on the NAS.
In terms of storage, 2-bay would probably be fine unless there is a decent 4-bay option for the right price. Probably want to start out with at least 4-8Tb usable space. Don't particularly care about redundancy so RAID-0 would likely work. Looking at the QNAP models, I liked the ability to have files automatically backed up to S3/Glacier.
Security features such as full-disk encryption are nice, but wouldn't want to compromise performance too much. I haven't seen many options which offer this at a hardware level.
Support for VMs (preferably Docker, but the QNAP container stuff looks very similar) would be ideal, both for running the services I'm interested in and general "tinkering"!
As I've been looking I've focussed primarily on QNAP and Synology - they seem to have the best features and people generally say good things about them. The QNAP TS-X51+ looks quite attractive.
Budget is flexible, seems like ~$500-700 all-in seems a decent range for most home NAS solutions.
Thanks in advance.
I'm looking for something to use at home as a Plex server. Primarily I'll be streaming to Apple TV and other iOS devices. Also I've been looking at homebridge and airsonos - I'd like to be able to run those on the NAS.
In terms of storage, 2-bay would probably be fine unless there is a decent 4-bay option for the right price. Probably want to start out with at least 4-8Tb usable space. Don't particularly care about redundancy so RAID-0 would likely work. Looking at the QNAP models, I liked the ability to have files automatically backed up to S3/Glacier.
Security features such as full-disk encryption are nice, but wouldn't want to compromise performance too much. I haven't seen many options which offer this at a hardware level.
Support for VMs (preferably Docker, but the QNAP container stuff looks very similar) would be ideal, both for running the services I'm interested in and general "tinkering"!
As I've been looking I've focussed primarily on QNAP and Synology - they seem to have the best features and people generally say good things about them. The QNAP TS-X51+ looks quite attractive.
Budget is flexible, seems like ~$500-700 all-in seems a decent range for most home NAS solutions.
Thanks in advance.