Comment on Looking to upgrade my NAS need advice.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 week agoSince 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 1 week ago
Yeah that makes sense. Do you have any recommendations on a DIY or non synology specific system?
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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.