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« on: Monday, December 16, 2019, 10:53:17 » |
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Hi all (really only Venkman/SiPie).
My NAS is on theway out so looking at options to replace. Half interested to build my own based on raspberry pi4/sata hats but not if it's going to be more expensive. Any good deals about on storage? I'm finding hard drives to be pretty expensive.
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« Reply #1 on: Monday, December 16, 2019, 11:10:28 » |
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No the price of decent HDD's are really high at the moment.
I use 3 3tb HDD's but I get mine from Cex for the amount I use them, more storage than retrieval and the price even there is high.
The 3tb in Cex is about £40, my daughter is manager in the Bridgewater one so I get 15% off so that brings it down a bit, I just hate spending much on storage now but don't trust clud storage.
I know you are looking around £60 for a 3tb and £80 for a 4tb which is you are stringing 3 or 4 into a NAS then thats pretty pricey, the low power ones even more expensive.
I get deals offered all the time so will keep an eye out, if you can get to Bridgwater I can get you the 15% off on a 2nd hand one if its any good, probably not cost effective though.
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« Reply #2 on: Monday, December 16, 2019, 11:22:32 » |
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Cheers JJ. Yeah I'm seeing 3TB WD Reds for about £90 - £100. I have a single drive NAS at the moment which is 3Tb so I'd be wanted to upgrade to dual drive for redundancy and hopefully increse the strorage size too. Looking at over £200 just for the drives...
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« Reply #3 on: Monday, December 16, 2019, 11:42:58 » |
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Yeah for low power NAS HDDs they are really dear, do you have much through put or is it just occassional storage?
I only use mine for Films/TV programs and game back ups so don't use much at all in traffic just storage hardly ever access.
No idea why they are so pricey, just as memory and SSD prices drop like a stone the HDDs go up. Or at least don't come down any more. I know 2nd hand a WD red NAS 3tb is about £60 but you never can be sure of the on hours and usage so could be buying a lemon, not great when you rely on them.
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« Reply #4 on: Monday, December 16, 2019, 18:05:30 » |
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Just films, TV and generally data storage/backup.
Not adverse to 2nd hand but like you say easy to buy a lemon. A NAS drive is generally going to have been running 24/7/365.
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« Reply #5 on: Monday, December 16, 2019, 18:08:31 » |
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« Reply #6 on: Monday, December 16, 2019, 19:04:20 » |
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The code for the 4tb is WDBWLG0040 which means its a Western Digital Blue.
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« Reply #7 on: Monday, December 16, 2019, 22:11:15 » |
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OK cheers, desktop drive then.
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« Reply #8 on: Thursday, January 2, 2020, 22:36:22 » |
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SO my NAS has gone on the blink! One of the 2 x 1TB drives appears inaccessible. I've had the thing for about 10 years and used cheaper desktop drives. I think this is the second failure in that time.
Any recommendation on what to replace it with?
I only store documents, photos, music and the odd video.
P.S. Running in a Synology DS213+
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« Reply #9 on: Friday, January 3, 2020, 09:58:45 » |
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Western Digital Red are the top spec NAS drives. Around £90 for a 3Tb drive.
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« Reply #10 on: Friday, January 3, 2020, 10:01:07 » |
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Western Digital Red are the top spec NAS drives. Around £90 for a 3Tb drive.
Good drives, good longevity and low power and not a bad price. |
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« Reply #12 on: Friday, January 3, 2020, 11:34:32 » |
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Bargain if you just want to repair. |
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« Reply #13 on: Saturday, January 4, 2020, 11:55:23 » |
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You might find an RPi a bit under powered depending on what you want to run on it. For storage it'll be fine.
I'm running a Plex server and Home Assistant server on my NAS, I built my own using spare parts and run Xigmanas. I think it's a G3258 processor which is plenty.
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