Might also look at larger drives. When I compared 3.5’’ drives then the 24TB is cheaper per terabyte than both 16TB and 12TB. The ones I compared are listed below:
Seagate Exos X24 Harddisk ST24000NM002H 24TB 3.5" Serial Attached SCSI 2
Seagate Exos X24 Harddisk ST16000NM001H 16TB 3.5" Serial ATA-600 7200rpm
Seagate IronWolf Harddisk ST12000VN0008 12TB 3.5" SATA-600 7200rpm
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ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoOkay then I’d have to buy 4 more 12TB drives to transfer it all over. Good to know.
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah I’ll have to see then. HD isn’t that much of an issue to get. Really the hardware and software to run a new NAS will be the most difficult thing for me. Since it isn’t my expertise and I’m still learning.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Since you are looking to build up to 12 bays, what you can do is buy that 4x 12TB drive set now, transfer everything over to the new system, then add the old 12TB drives into the array one-by-one expanding it to an 8x 12TB array.
ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah that makes sense. Do you have any recommendations on a DIY or non synology specific system?
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Not the person you responded to, but personally I just went Truenas scale on baremetal and it worked really well. Currently they also work with docker so setting up additional apps is really easy as well.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For DIY, just about any setup would work fine as long as you put it in a case with lots of bays. Throw 2 or 3 of these in there* and you now have however many ports are on the motherboard (probably 2 or 4) plus 8-12 more ports available via the cards.
*I’m not recommending that specific card, just something that gives you SATA ports on a PCI-E card. Just pay attention to bandwidth bottlenecks on the cards. Here is a table of PCI-E speeds.
anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Followup; Not as cheap but there are M.2 to SATA cards available too, if your mb has no enoty PCIe but do have empty M.2 available.