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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'm mostly happy with my WD PR4100 which has hardware encoding for plex server if you like that stuff.
I'm being forced over to the latest hardware OS very soon so that may change but it's been pretty decent since late 2016.
the PR2100 (2 disk version) may be worth a look though not sure it has the same features.
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They just aren't stable enough - my guess (and it is just a wild guess) is because of power problems.
At the risk of teaching grandmother to suck eggs, what are you powering them with?
I've got one of these that was recommended on here and zero stability problems:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00YSA0WI8/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_8VFZ7RRFVWND8MH9TM3KThis is with one Pi running a Pi Hole and Unifi Controller and another running Home Assistant OS with a Home Assistant setup which is now fairly complex...
Storage could also be an issue, I've got a gold A++++ or whatever rated micro SD card in the Pi Hole / controller but a NVME SSD for my Hassio setup (which did corrupt once when I was using an El cheapo micro SD but has been all good since).
To say I'm no expert on this shit is an understatement but as I understand it stability issues are normally power or storage presuming everything is installed correctly.
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They just aren't stable enough - my guess (and it is just a wild guess) is because of power problems
Good guess.
Mine are super stable, very reliable. But I do have a ups so that would be it
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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?