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an OTP option or the DIY Raspberry Pi option
I'm about to lose all of my Pi setups for (mini) NAS, home assistant, pihole etc...
They just aren't stable enough - my guess (and it is just a wild guess) is because of power problems.
UPS would be fairly straight forward, no? Just plug a USB battery pack in series.
redundancy rabbit-hole
I have an OTP NAS that is mirrored to WD MyCloud (terrible interface, terrible NAS OS, but does the basics), which is in turn synced to locally to a desktop and then to my own S3 VPS.
[Edit] just looked at your links. I have the MyCloud EX2 Ultra.
Don't get it.
As I mentioned - it does the basics, but it's a very locked down OS / virtual container, and i've had to do some fragile af fuckery on it to make it work as I would like (e.g. having seamless integration with my desktop over ssh).
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I've got an HP MicroServer N40L you can have for a forum donation if you want.
It's old but they're very reliable and they're so popular that you'll find a guide to running most OSs on them. Has 4GB of memory and a 60GB SSD and can take another 4 (or maybe 5) HDDs.
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I went with a NAS because it is physically a tidy box and it is less hassle to run. I have a basic 4 bay Synology DS420j which I'm happy with, would buy again.
I rsync an encrypted copy of the data I care about to a cheap OVH VM somewhere in France for off-site.
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Not sure if this is the best thread for this, but any folks here have any thoughts/experience on home NAS options? Torn between an OTP option or the DIY Raspberry Pi option.
Got most of the bits for the Pi option (still need to look into a UPS to deal with power-cuts), but being limited to 256GB (well, due to only having 4 x 128GB flash drives to hand, larger storage ones aren't too pricey). Also, fairly sure the Pi has 2 x USB2 & 2 USB3 ports, not sure if that's another pain to deal with. Would also be nice to have remote access, not something I've done before and seems like a way to inadvertently allow nefarious types access to your home network. Also guessing flash drives are quicker to wear out compared with HDDs in a NAS system.
Flip side is an OTP option that costs around £3-400 and has a much higher storage capacity. I'm guessing with these sorts of things you work out what storage capacity you need, only to bung a whole heap of stuff onto it due to the convenience and end up needing several times more than what you first estimated.
Two OTP options I'm looking at are:
https://www.westerndigital.com/en-ie/products/network-attached-storage/wd-my-cloud-expert-series-ex2-ultra#WDBVBZ0080JCH-EESN
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS220j
Both work out around £3-400 for 8TB (4TB with redundancy) options.
Be interested to hear if any folks here have any experience of either/both DIY/OTP options and any thoughts.
I guess as an aside, does picking one of these up lead you down the redundancy rabbit-hole that you have a mirrored setup off-site in case of a fire or similar?