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Recommend me a decent but cheap NAS (beehaw.org)

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Ideally one that can use more than one disk so that i can expand it later when i can. Have some minimal experience with Synology since there's one at work and i have interacted with it a couple times and like the interface, but am not married to any brand as long as it works.

Located in EU if it makes any difference.

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[–] moira 1 points 1 year ago

Depends which route you wanna take:

cheap and works out-of-the-box - entry level synology/qnap/asustore
have some more room, cheap, expandable, want to tinker a bit: consider used/refurbished SFF/Tower, you can get some of them in very decent price, like HP Z230 (or other haswell+ CPU), slap truenas and there you go.

Personally I prefer the more DIY approach, as it doesn't lock me into hardware (e.g can diagnose/replace faulty parts instead of throwing away whole box) or software (synology actually use standard md/btrfs raid so it can be read by any modern linux). Although I was using Synology myself and was very happy about the software